It's not a bad idea to have a weak point to break rather than damage the camera, this I can accept. What I have trouble accepting is that you can't buy a new flash foot or other parts for a SB24 & others because they are older than 6 or 10 years for which parts must be made available. My beef - a $20.00 flash foot that CANT be purchased turns into a $600 - $700.00 new flash. Where is the economy in that? If a flash or other item has a designed OR found to be, weak point/s then there needs to be a much better arrangement for spare parts & not just by Nikon but rather the entire industry. To all the people with equipment over the 6 - 10 years, be warned, parts are not guaranteed. Tony Balm > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:40:15 -0600 > From: Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: SB-29 [v04.n210/12] [v04.n213/11] [v04.n216/23] > Message: 23 > > This is actually a feature, not a flaw. Since the the camera's hot shoe > is > a potential breaking point, and is certainly a major stress point, it > makes > sense for the inexpensive flash foot to be flexible and breakable. A > small > tap of the flash head can create pretty good torque at the hot shoe. > Perhaps you'd rather have an F5's finder come off in an accident? > > I've had the pleasure of using more "sturdy" mounting adapters on > previous > Nikons (SB-16A, SB-12). The old Nikon flashes (non-standard hot shoe) > had > virtually nondestructible attachments. Having the hot shoe broken off > two > cameras (F2A, F3HP) in the past, I don't really mind if the replaceable > foot on my SB-26 breaks on an impact. Buying a new foot for $20 beats > the > heck out of having to replace a finder or repair it. > > Jeff Wright
