I had the memory card door on the *ist-D just break off for no apparent
reason one time. Sheared right at the hinge. I was walking through the
woods in deep dry leaves at the time.
Fortunately I heard the barely audible "tink" sound the spring made when
it flipped out, looked down and saw what had happened right then. Spent
about half an hour on my hands and knees sifting through dry leaves, but
I found the door.
My local camera repair guy was able to order a replacement door from
Pentax and duct tape held the door in place until the part came in a
week or so later. Only took the repair guy about 10 minutes to install
the new door, so I wasn't even out of action for a day.
From: Bob Sullivan
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.
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