it would probably be a really easy thing to repair. You would have to make sure the weather sealing gasket for the bottom plate was clean and correctly placed is all. parts are hard to come by. the first option would be to find a completely broken camera with a good bottom plate. that would be cheaper than precision or any service center. If the door is the same as my old broken K-5 I would gladly cannibalize if for you. My K-3 is back at precision for the THIRD time so I cannot compare. :/
Did the camera see a fall or anything. If it hit hard you might want to have someone check it out anyways or at least test it thoroughly. It will operate without a battery door and the battery does lock inside the camera. Not ideal, but at least you can test it out. Eric can get pentax parts thought he does not service digital cameras. You could ask him if he could get a bottom plate for your from Pentax. Just an idea. http://www.pentaxs.com/ On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > I was once stupid enough to knock a whole camera (Spotmatic) off my > table onto the cobble stone walkway. > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:20 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2016-04-16 15:30 , Darren Addy wrote: >>> >>> No idea how it happened, but I know I was stupid enough to leave the >>> camera with the battery door open. >> >> >> if this helps you a little bit, i was stupid enough to leave the whole >> camera once >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
