Dropped my K-50 + 50mm 1.8 DA!

Anirut J wrote:

Sorry to hear that you dropped your K50.

But don't worry, Pentax cameras are bulit like tanks! I dropped my Kr on a hard floor and the body cracked and it worked fine. It fell off a chair in a boat, rolled on the steel floor about five meters, the body chipped, the filter dented, and the whole set worked fine.

Yours was in a camera bag, I wouldn'worry much.

I love your last line...Haha, did you see the picture of my camera bag? I got it for free and I believe its this model -

http://www.amazon.com/Xit-XTCC1-Small-Digital-Camera/dp/B00B4LFAAO

I mean really...look at how many camera body lengths it fell.  I was really lucky.  But going through many of my gear in the past there are few that would have gone through it unscathed...I don't think my Sony A6000 would have done the same (for one the 50mm 1.8 OSS extends very far from mount creating far greater potential for some damage).  The K-50 is like a big plastic lego brick and the 50mm 1.8 lens that hangs off the front is a tiny well secured no-wobble lens.  Unlike many Canon 50mms where the *focus* cam moves in and out, the *exterior* of the 50mm 1.8 is a solid non-wobble filter thread and the lens is recessed so in a way it even behaves like a 'hooded' lens without needing a bulky hood.  My Canon 6D is a fair bit bigger and larger...but with a magnesium alloy exterior for a good portion that hit in a given spot may have given way.  And if there was my Canon 85 or 50mm on it, again I don't see how they would have fared well at all.

Yes it was partly luck, but its also the fact that even if these lenses even if derided for being small cheap plastic primes...seem to have qualities for robustness and taking a beating.  I mean there is absolutely no wobble or flex on my K-50, and both the plastic build of the K-50 and lens seem to show off exactly why its not such a bad thing to have a plastic body or lens...