Why not a titanium body ?

Oiche wrote:

bob5050 wrote:

Oiche wrote:

You're always going on about this but you don't have any premium lenses.

I don't currently own any * or Limiteds, no. How that affects durability escapes me.

* lenses have the highest build quality with the best weather sealing and the Limiteds also have higher build quality and made of metal (compare this to your beginner DA35 plastic fantastic for example. However I will go on to explain this does not mean you can drop them.

Why do you insist on metal bodies and use a lens with toy build quality? Now the plastic fantastic is known as a lens which does not last, it even has a plastic mount.

My K-70 with these lenses makes a better imaging machine than your equipment.

No doubt. I don't believe I've ever dissed the K-70's IQ. It's much newer than my K-3 and incorporates later technology. Again, however, that's unrelated to durability.

I expect that the k-new will cost somewhere between 1,600-2,000 USD. Knocking a camera off a table that costs that much is a different proposition than dropping a $500 camera. So higher end cameras get sturdier construction. That, in itself, adds weight but does not necessarily impact IQ. Two different issues.

bob5050

You're completely not understanding durability and only focussing on the outside case bit. The rubber covers etc. rot after years on cameras like K5 but this depends upon exposure.

If you drop cameras from heights a mag-alloy body with do nothing to protect the internals from G-Shock than any other body. My friend dropped his Nikon recently, no damage to the body but the internals went hay-wire.

Go ahead and drop your K-new a few times and see how it works.

You are completely misunderstanding how tough a polycarbonate body is and if you did manage to smash it the force would be be so much that the internals would be wrecked just like a metal body.

When you consider where the camera is going to fail if you have a larger  lens attached to the body it is more than likely the lens mount that is going to suffer the very same fate regardless if is has a metal shell or a plastic  shell.

And when you take a look at this vital connection between the lens and the camera body it is plastic for all pentax camera (excluding the 645 series) so the outer shell will not protect any stresses to the plastic underlying chassis in the camera.

All these cameras are disposable anyhow and most people want to upgrade every 5 years or so as the technology advances significantly, hence why I spent more money on the lenses.