tom and alex were discussing: "> > Or even the *ist D. My *ist D fell a few weeks ago and the CF door > > cracked. Someone else on dpreview dropped one in November with a > > flash attached and the flash ripped off of the hotshoe. > > The shoe on the camera ripped out? > > The flashes are designed so that the foot on the flash will break > before the shoe on the camera. > > At least that's what I was told by Pentax after having broke about 9 > of them. > > tv"
tom! I have had the same problem! Only when using crappy Sigma flash guns though. Since getting myself a genuine Pentax AF360fgz I haven't broken even one! When I was using only the Sigma flashes, I broke that many that despite having 3 separate flash heads, I would often find myself without a working flash! Soooo, I got clever, phoned CR Kennedy (the importer of said flashes) and order 3 x of those little module thingies that have the foot on them for each of my separate flash guns. I think that they were around 30 bucks each. So, I just kept them in my cupboard and each time I snapped one off, I would unscrew it, pull out a couple of little connectors and attach a new one. Kept me going for ages, but just thinking about it now, I'd better order some more cause I may be out of them. Bloody plastic.... What is it about you and I and breaking our gear?!?! Actually, I know exactly why I do this with my flashes so often, it is because I leave the gun attached to the camera and usually have a second camera, (with flash attached) swinging around my neck, and many times this has resulted in it being "ripped off" by someone running past me and catching themselves on it, me running into or backing into a doorwar etc with it, oh, and dropping it on the road and getting it runover will do it too... <vbg> tan.
