PJ, My sad story was with the K-10 battery door. I took the sd card out and set the K-10 (with door open) on the arm of the easy chair. I didn't want to close the door as I had forgotten to reload the card on other occasions. After some time downloading to the laptop and lightroom, I nodded off! When I woke-up, I bumped the camera to the floor. It landing on the open door and bent it backwards. No glue would hold it together although tape would cover the problem. I sent it back to Pentax for repair. I don't leave the door open any longer. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the > interface subtly weird.\par > } > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
