Actually I had that happen with an MX once. The hot shoe snapped off,
other than that there was little damage. The top plate was bent but
nothing a semi competent repairman couldn't handle.
John Forbes wrote:
>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.
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>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
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>On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:34:36 +0100, Sylwester Pietrzyk
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>On 01.09.2006, at 06:58 , Douglas Newman wrote:
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>>>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
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