Exactly what danger did you believe there would be in touching something containing lead?
Leaded gas was done away with because you could breath in the fumes, because the gas was, you know, incinerated and released the lead in fumes. Leaded paint was removed from homes, not because touching the paint was bad, not because having it was bad but because children were eating the paint chips. Lead piping was again a problem because of drinking water with lead now in it.
So unless you were planning on inhaling or eating the camera, what danger did you think there was from it.
Contact with lead leaves it on your skin, and people tend to pick up food with their fingers. It was always mentioned to me at school to wash my hands after handeling solder (which is tin + lead), and I assumed that the same would apply here. Without doing any more research into the stuff, I would much rather just spend a few more dollars and get one that is not going to poison me.
A recent article in Mother Jones[0] suggested that lead is much more dangerous than we ever realized, and even blamed it on the rise in crime in the US.
Leaded gas was done away with because you could breath in the fumes, because the gas was, you know, incinerated and released the lead in fumes. Leaded paint was removed from homes, not because touching the paint was bad, not because having it was bad but because children were eating the paint chips. Lead piping was again a problem because of drinking water with lead now in it.
So unless you were planning on inhaling or eating the camera, what danger did you think there was from it.