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- From: rika@informix.com (Rika Tsitsinia)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Plastic Canon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.054450.9920@informix.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 05:44:50 GMT
- References: <nicholson.11@main.mndly.umn.edu> <1993Jan22.002517.29853@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.002517.29853@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> goldis@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Goldis) writes:
- >I'm really surprised by how many people complain about "plastic"
- >cameras feeling cheap and flimsy. Personally, I don't think having
- >a camera weigh less is a disadvantage. I suppose if it would make
- >people feel better they could always put some lead weights inside. :-)
- >
- >"Plastic" cameras are not made of the same kind of plastic you find in
- >a tub of butter or a cheap icecube tray. It's not going to shatter if
- >you drop it. In this era of space-age materials why is it so hard to
- >believe that things don't have to weigh a ton to be strong?
- >
-
- I believe my Minolta Maxxum 7000 was also made of some
- space-age wonder plastic. Well, it broke when it fell from
- about 10 inches onto the pavement. I was amazed, stunned!
- And it was inside a thinly padded bag, to boot!
-
- At the shop they told me it would take $80 just to touch
- it. Oh, the wonders of complicated electronic cameras! So I
- left it unrepaired, since it was the battery cover that was
- dislocated and cracked while the rest seemed to be still
- light-proof. I sold it and made one decision:
-
- Never buy a plastic camera again!
-
- >I wouldn't think that models intended for average consumers would be
- >as durable as the top-of-the-line professional model (nor are they as
- >expensive), but despite all the complaints about how cheap and flimsy
- >plastic cameras feel, I've never heard of a single legitimate
- >durability problem.
- >
- Mine is legitimate IMO. And there is no reason that a camera
- chock-full with electronic chips and motors have a cheap and
- non-durable outer shell to protect them. No reason at all.
- They are not cheap anyway, and a little better protection
- would not add to the cost all that much. Sorry, I don't buy
- this argument.
-
- And *I* want to be the one who decides how long my camera
- should last and when I should replace it. And I still gladly
- have the option, although the way they replace metal with plastic
- I am afraid I won't in the future.
-
- And BTW, metal need not be all that heavy.
-
- >One other thing. Pros I know used to really moan and groan about the
- >plastic lens hoods that most EOS lenses come with. Now they realize
- >they actually protect better than metal because they absorb the impact
- >instead of merely transmitting it to the lens.
-
- No experience with metal v plastic hoods. I have both and
- I don't think one is better than the other. If what you say is
- right, then hoods is a good application for plastic. But camera
- bodies, in my experience, is not! At least not yet.
-
-
- >--
- >Al Goldis
-
- Georgios
-