Cameras & Camcorders

[StonePilot]

I'm curious to know how many people had this happen. 

From my perspective, it's a design flaw becuase without doing anything out of the ordinary, the lens mounts failed.  A significant amount of force should be required to damage the mount, and that doesn't appear to be the case.  Any design that can fail in production with small amounts of force is a poor design.

[Rrrrrrr]

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Entropy wrote:

Ugh, that's annoying.  Pentax has used metal mounts for nearly everything, the new DA-L series (kits for the lower end bodies) are the exceptions.

Pretty much "pretty colors = plastic mount" (Pentax offers multiple body/lens colors on the K-x and K-r and associated kit lenses.  4-5 colors in the USA, insane numbers of colors in Japan.)

Similarly, Canon is annoying in that only L glass comes with a hood...  Every lens I have ever bought (Pentax first-party, or Sigma/Tamron third-party) has included a hood!

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Even my Nikon 600 F4 came with a hood. Also came with a freaking steamer trunk also. It costs about $500 to replace the hood alone.

I still say it wouldnt increase $$ if they just used a metal mount on the kit lenses.