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Originally Posted by rob_x2004
R8/9 are soft construction. Unless you used a spanner to overtighten the thread there is no way it should deform the camera body enough to cause the sort of problems you can get. It is a design fault. And I have no plans to drop my R9, it just isnt a rugged beast.
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This is where you are absolutely wrong. Sorry.
With the Manfrotto plate, with the overlong screw thread, just tightening the plate onto the bottom of the R8 was sufficient to cause the problem. I know. It happened to me, and I have never taken a spanner to my cameras.