I’ve been shooting cameras since 1960, back then almost all cameras had silver bodies, but about 10 years later many cameras started to appear wearing black finishes. The marketing was that black cameras were more stealth. Brassing that is the edges of the body started to show the brass metal below the painted surface, in time this look was a sign of honor that the photographer really used the camera and so it seems most bodies were now black. Sign of the times?, fashion statement? I don’t know but I’ve been buying black bodies ever since.
