Alan Browne wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:23:05 -0700 (PDT), Rich
wrote:

On Oct 3, 6:22 pm, clw wrote:
In article ,
Alan Browne wrote:

Just proves (again) that Nikon are capable of making stupid decisions
about "value" and using plastic in the wrong places.
Gee, one would think from some of the posts in this thread that they
thought they were buying a hand to hand combat weapon from Nikon.

Except perhaps for a steel ball, there is almost nothing on earth that
cannot be broken by mis-handling.
True. But to expect to use a camera for say 2 years without dropping
it once is probably naive and unrealistic.

I've used cameras for 50 years and I can't remember dropping one once.

I've yet to drop a camera or lens. Maybe I shouldn't say that, the Gods
of such things may take revenge.

Just once have I dropped a lens. I was changing lenses and one of
them slipped and fell.

But it was at the beach and the sand cushioned the fall. One of those
classic good news bad news things.

--
Ray Fischer