Originally posted by Not a Number Wrong. There were people on one of the Yahoo lens groups complaining that plastic mounts on Nikon kit lenses routinely break conveniently after the warranty period.
Well, of course! That's Nikon, not Pentax!
I suspect stupid or bad handling more than material. OK, maybe they can do stupid and bad handling and not break a metal mount, got it.
There's a huge range of plastics to choose from for such an application. Hopefully Pentax has picked a better one that Nikon. In fact, because I want that to be the case, they did!