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Steezus wrote:
I am not a big fan of the D90. I recommended it to my friend a few months ago, he bought it, was happy, started getting really into photography, then accidentally pulled it off a shelf about 2 feet high at most with the Sigma 10-20 lens on it.
The D90 cracked at the lens mount and the AE/EF button and auto focus never worked again unless it was using the phase detect in live view/.
To me, I just don't think that a $800-900 dollar camera should break falling 2 feet onto carpet, and it more than broke, those cracks were really long and wide enough to allow particulates inside the body.
Now he wished Nikon would let him pay for the fix and the difference to get the magnesium alloy skeleton that comes with the D300. He can only pay for the repair of the D90 though.
Now I recommend starting with the D3000/D5000 or used D40/60 for people with no experience, and starting at least with a D300 if they already know they like photography.
What does accidentally breaking the camera say about its overall quality? Nothing.
If I crash my SMART car, and it is destroyed, does that mean it was a bad car? No. It simply means I broke it, just like the camera.
There are simply too many variables to come to such a conclusion. How fast it accelerated, where it impacted, how much the lens weighed, how much under-padding there was, etc effect the shock the camera experienced.
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