Ok, I'll preface that by saying I actually like the K20D a lot. True
it's quite a bit bigger than any other Pentax camera I own, Film or
digital. It doesn't have an aperature simulator, (yea, that still
torques me off a bit, so sue me), It's exposure system often gives me
files that take a lot of massaging to get good results from. However
over all it's a using it is a very positive experience.
Just a couple of days ago I had an experience that just takes the cake.
I was changing SD cards when I fumble fingered the camera and dropped it.
The good news was I had the strap over one shoulder... Which was also
the bad news.
The strap managed to impart a radial motion to the camera, and in a
freak circumstance that I don't think that I could accomplish if I tried
the SD card door latch, (the part of the latch that clicks into the
camera body, caught my belt loop... AND SHEARED OFF!
Apparently that little plastic extrusion is more fragile than you'd expect.
Also the strap wasn't as securely on my shoulder as I would have hoped
and after being slowed the entire camera hit the wooden floor I was
standing on, (imparting a slight bend to the left hand strap lug.
Now I ask you. What happens if the SD Door latch doesn't engage? Yes
that's right the camera won't operate. The micro switch that tells the
camera the door is closed is inside the latch, /rendering/ /the/
/entire/ /camera/ USELESS!
Ok, I'm calm again.
So we're back to the good news bad news again.
Good news. I was able to recover the plastic doohicky that used to be
part of the SD door latch.
Bad news. No glue that I have available to me will hold that piece of
plastic in the right place, (I knew it wouldn't work but I just had to
try. Well didn't I?)
Good news, my field expedient, (after much language not appropriate to a
family list), to simply the the plastic doohicky to sit in the latch
with the door closed, (gaffers tape is wonderful stuff), seems to work,
it even stays put, if I remember to not use the open control allowing
the camera to take photos.
The bad news is know I'm just going to loose it changing cards in the
field eventually.
So it's off to Pentax repair...
eventually.
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