Re: FS: Chrome battery door (four prong) for ESII

[Joe Wilensky]

Take off the battery door you have on your ESII -- if it has four prongs (two toward the front of the camera, two toward the rear) then you have the four-prong type. The other variation is three prongs, although I can't remember if the single-prong side points toward the front or rear of the camera. You'll know what you have when you take a look at it. ;-)

P.S. Here's a shot from Paul Provencher's great Pentax bodies/lenses page:
http://whitemetal.com/pentax/esii/esii_15.htm
What's pictured is the three-prong battery door, showing only one prong at the center of the bottom edge of the door (as oriented in this photo). The four-prong one has two tabs at the bottom edge of the door that line up with the two on the top edge.

Joe

Ok, I'll bite. I have an ES-II how do I tell a 4 prong from 3 prong battery door. (It would be nice to
have a spare since they look amazingly easy to lose).

At 01:55 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:

I purchased this on eBay just a few weeks ago as an extra for my ESII and somehow forgot that my ESII has the three-prong battery door, rather than the four-prong bodies this battery door cover will fit. (This battery cover has two tabs on top, two on bottom.)

It's chrome, but could certainly be painted black, and the chrome is fairly discolored anyway. But the battery contacts on the other side are in fine condition, and it's a solid piece.

I got it for $5.95, so let's say $7 including shipping and a padded envelope to addresses in the continental U.S. If you're the first to respond and you're not in the continental U.S., we'll figure out actual postage.

Joe