Swig, maybe I have just been unlucky and/or clumsy, but I think that the "tough" aspect of the Pentax would be very useful for anyone who is using the camera for more than a trip to Disneyland. Things fall, bags get tossed around; I don't want to spend my whole trip worrying about babying my camera. As for photo quality, it might not be so great, but who prints photos anymore anyways?