One of my *ist Ds is currently at Pentax having the top plate replaced. I stupidly let it fall from a chair onto a carpeted floor while a flash was attached, and whilst there was no other damage, the part of the body under the hotshoe was torn off, leaving the hotshoe dangling by its partly severed wires.
I am sure a metal top plate would not have broken off in similar circumstances, though the breaking of the plate might have spared other parts of the camera from more stress. John On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:34:36 +0100, Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01.09.2006, at 06:58 , Douglas Newman wrote: > >> Well, the next Boeing airliner is going to have a >> plastic fuselage; does this mean it is amateur grade >> ;-)? >> >> Anyway, I do not see the K10D as a "pro" body. Its >> competitors will be the Canon 400D, Canon 30D, Nikon >> D80 and Sony A100. I would not call these "pro" >> bodies. (Well, maybe some would call the 30D this - it >> is also slightly more expensive than the others.) >> >> Most rumours seem to indicate that the K10D will >> feature a plastic body over a stainless-steel >> subframe. This is how every Pentax D-SLR has been so >> far, and they are very sturdy. >> >> True, metal as in the lovely MZ-S FEELS nicer, but >> plastic can actually be cheaper AND more durable. > > That's true. And there were some unquestionably PRO bodies with > plastic outer shall: Canon EOS-1n, Minolta Dynax 9xi and our own > Pentax 645n ;-) All these bodies proved to be tough and reliable even > under quite severe conditions. > > Cheers, > Sylwek > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
