I realise you have had to do a lot of repairs Everhard but ,and I qoute; "failure rate of slightly less than 50 percent" is totaly unacceptable.
I can understand the detiriation of the tin silicone, there is nothing that can be done about that, but mechanical failures should of been solved years ago!
Even with all the feedback the issue is still ignored by RD, they can make a bendy spine but not bullet proof hip joints , theres research and development for you.
Well I shall never do anymore R&D for them on my part, its to expensive to my own pocket!
The perenial retort of "Mishandling by the owner" just does not work anymore , look at the repair and maintainance thread here at ODC.
And we are only the smallest tip of the iceberg recording these failures.
Rather like other consumer goods be it cars or washing machines , theres even more money to be made in supply of replacement parts and repair kits!
Theres not enough feed back from the other manufacterers of dolls to gauge their durability, even so I do not recall any major breakages from other companys dolls.
If anyone knows better let us all know......
Turned purple with anger, Rant over until the next RD breakage. 
I would be interested with which camera and lens do you work.
And back to a nicer subject.
Bluemouse, my camera is second hand of Ebay, it is a Fujifilm FinePix S7000, a 2003 model
Fixed lense digital SLR rated at a massive 6 megapixel , but as some ladies say, "its not the size that matters, its what you do with it "
I would love a current top of the range camera with all the lenses but at this time they are way beyond my pocket plus far to complicated.
To be honest I miss my old film Olympus OM2 camera, light , easy to use with only three parameters, shutter speed, aperture and film speed, easy.
Lets see what google makes of this.
meine Kamera ist aus zweiter Hand von Ebay, ist es eine Fujifilm FinePix S7000, ein 2003-Modell Feststehende Linse digitale Spiegelreflexkamera zu einem massiven 6-Megapixel-bewertet, sondern als einige Damen sagen, "Es ist nicht die Größe kommt es an, dessen, was man damit macht": lachen: Ich würde gerne eine aktuelle Spitzenmodell Kamera mit allen Objektiven, aber zu diesem Zeitpunkt sind sie weit über mein Pocket Plus zu weit komplizierter. Um ehrlich zu sein ich vermisse meine alten Film Olympus OM2, leicht, einfach, mit nur drei Parameter, Verschlusszeit, Blende und Filmempfindlichkeit, einfach zu benutzen.
cheers Ray.
