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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
Jerry wrote:
I suspect that Ialdabaoth created Imperfection so that on this day Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:23:05 -0700 (PDT), one purporting to be Rich could write : True. But to expect to use a camera for say 2 years without dropping it once is probably naive and unrealistic. I have never dropped a camera in my 40 years of work. Nor for that matter have I ever dropped a lens. Jerry. I have dropped a camera once in 40 years, last summer. It did not hurt the camera but it did damage the lens, a Canon 24-105 f4L, not cheap ($1000) ... but the damaged parts were plastic. It cost $110 to fix. Doug McDonald |
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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
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 |
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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... 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. I've never exactly dropped an SLR, but I did have one come off the pillion of my motorcycle once and bounce end over end along the highway for some distance -- I was doing about 65 mph at the time. I thought I had it well secured, but obviously didn't. Camera still worked fine except for the film counter which became sort of erratic. That was a screw-mount Petri, my very first SLR, about 1963. In recent years though I have had a couple of ultracompact cameras slip out of my fingers. I am a moderately clumsy person. |
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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
Savageduck wrote:
I have been wary of door knobs with regard to camera straps ever since. My policy is to be wary of knobs in general, and the way they can jerk your stuff around. |
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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
In rec.photo.digital Ray Fischer wrote:
Rich wrote: On Oct 3, 6:22pm, 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 my curent camera for three years and haven't dropped it. Nor did I drop the camera before it. A metal mount wouldn't have broken the way the plastic did. It would have broken some other way. When two modular and very expensive components like lens and camera are t be jpoined together it's good design to deliberately weaken the joint so that when something breaks it's more likely to be be the cheap sacrificial joint rather than the expensive lens or camera body. -- Chris Malcolm |
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Plastic proves itself as CRAP again
Neil Harrington wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... 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. I've never exactly dropped an SLR, but I did have one come off the pillion of my motorcycle once and bounce end over end along the highway for some distance -- I was doing about 65 mph at the time. I thought I had it well secured, but obviously didn't. Camera still worked fine except for the film counter which became sort of erratic. That was a screw-mount Petri, my very first SLR, about 1963. What ever happened to that company? Went bankrupt 'cause they made products that lasted? In recent years though I have had a couple of ultracompact cameras slip out of my fingers. I am a moderately clumsy person. Should be more typos. |
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