Why does everone hate silver cameras?

Or Zebra stripes ~~ it might happen.

SF Lights wrote in post #7042414
Don't say these kinds of things! Canon 5D Mark II - Now avaliable in hot pink and navy blue!

I want an indigo camera with hot green lugstraps. And I wrote that before I read all of the other hilarious color combos.

FretNoMore wrote in post #7040859
A metal/titanium camera would be cool, but silver plastic just looks cheap to me.

Exactly!

I have a Canon S-410 Digital Elph in silver metal...real metal and it looks cool. Silver colored plastic is like lipstick on a pig.

Cheers!

yeah silver cameras are crap!!!!

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WillOPhotos wrote in post #7042668
yeah silver cameras are crap!!!!

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:p

Well thats not a camera, thats a machine from god.

IMO, silver doesn't suit a DSLR. It's great for point and shoots, but it's simply hideous on a DSLR.

Black ftw!

i think that look too plastic. they look kinda like a toy if you ask me.

i dont think that silver sony lens looks too bad actually...

MattMoore wrote in post #7038545
If could be worse, you could score that all white Pentax DSLR.

http://www.dpreview.co​m …21603pentaxk200​0white.asp

hideous

Companies such as Alpa made film SLRs in many different colors with various leather types. That's nothing really new. http://www.alpareflex.​com/Cameras/11.htm

Nothing wrong with silver and black cameras IMO

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …inder_Digital_C​amera.html

Black, silver, chrome, plastic, aluminum, titanium, everything except those good 'ol brass corners.

There are plenty of silver cameras that are made of real metal, and IMHO these often look absolutely beautiful. But any plastic camera painted silver just looks like it is a "wanna be" metal camera to me. It's not that it looks pro or non-pro, it just looks like it is made from a cheap material (and I guess the assumption is that pro gear wouldn't be made from cheap materials). It's not just cameras, the same can be said for any similar electronic devices .
Ironically,there are some amazing plastics available these days that provide excellent materials for devices such as cameras, so I actually don't have a problem with cameras being made out of plastic at all and I don't buy into this whole "heavy = quality" belief, but the manufacturers trying to pretend their plastic is metal is just tacky.
A black camera on the other hand could be made of plastic, brass, magnesium or even wood and it wouldn't matter. A black camera isn't making any statement at all, in much the same way that black tyres or white ceilings aren't making statements - that's just the way most of them are.

I should point out that I quite happily bought a silver 350D once upon a time. I would've preferred black but it wasn't available when I went to buy mine so I chose silver without batting an eyelid. It is no big deal to me.

The 'Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost' never had much of an image problem and just imagine, it had black tires as well! how crass can you get!!
Take no notice, it's just the 'Fashion Police' doing their unwanted work, I wear white socks!! mainly because it drives my local Fashion Policeman crazy.

In parts of the UK you'd be profiled by the police as a potential troublemaker and all shop security would be alerted to your presence.

Unless, naturally, you were wearing a tennis outfit with those, sir.

Ukuleleman wrote in post #7044747
I wear white socks!! mainly because it drives my local Fashion Policeman crazy.

HappySnapper90 wrote in post #7042317
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Pretty soon sony and olympus will come out with dSLRs in different colors just like P&S cameras.

It's already here...

Panasonic G1, available in black, blue or red.