From: Bipin Gupta
Hey Folks, Pentax DSLRs come with a positive metal flip lever to open
the Card + Battery doors - the best design ever. So how do you manage
to break these doors?? Of course the doors are plastic, but darn good
ones. So unless you leave them open or fight with them you can't break
them - and when open the card will not record, no? Please be gentle
with these doors as you would with your GF.
Honestly, I have experimented twisting and turning the card door on a
"RIP" K20D with some pressure. The door fails to break.
So those of you folks who are going to break their doors please let me
know, so that with my Master Mechanic skills I can make you
unbreakable - hopefully - metal doors. Enjoy your Pentax DSLRs in the
meantime.
The card door on the *ist-D didn't have the same kind of release lever
that the K-10D/K-20D have. The release is built into the door itself.
At that, I have NO IDEA how it broke.
As I said, I was walking along through the woods with the camera on the
strap around my neck when I heard a noise. I looked down at the camera
and the battery door was missing.
I was fortunate that I did not ignore the noise & continue walking. I
was able to recover the missing part by digging through the leaves
around my feet at that point.
The plastic had split right at the hinge, leaving the little tube the
hinge pin fit through & the spring still attached to the camera. By
then, I'd used the camera for over a year, but I took it back to the
shop where I bought it. They were still a Pentax dealer at that time.
Their repair guy ordered a replacement part from Pentax & it only took
about a week for the part to arrive. It took him about 10 minutes to
install it.
In the meantime, I used acrylic packing tape to hold the broken door in
place so the little pin would tell the camera the door was closed & the
camera would turn on so I could use it.
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