Attention please:
Horrible designing of Lotus LF & ULF cameras

My Lotus 12x20in camera's metal tripod plate dropped from the camera body. There's a little shaking when the camera was on a tripod.
I found there's only glue between them without any metal screws to secure them.
What hell was the designing?!
I also contacted some Lotus camera users. I found some 5x7 Lotus cameras were same as me so far.
Gunter Stroebele of Lotus reply was that there were old version.
And he suggested to glue them again, or to plus screws to secure as the new versions.

I wanna question him why there's so rediculous designing onto 5x7 and 12x20in cameras.
It's the "famous" LOTUS.
How did they to let such cameras went out of their company?

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The metal tripod plate on the 12x20 Lotus body

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Dropped

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Only glue

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My friend's Lotus 5x7