Originally posted by froeschle What is probably more expensive to repair?
Maybe the mount sometimes is even planned as a predetermined breaking point.
If your camera hits the floor and the mount is ripped of, it is not going to be repaired. The mirror box is expensive and time consuming to replace. I got some cameras from Pentax for next to nothing where the mount had been ripped of the camera. I fixed them by carefully repairing the threads in the plastic mirror box and usually by buying a new brass mount, but Pentax does not repair cameras with epoxy, glue and drilling. They end up as trash.