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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yauman" data-source="post: 354740" data-attributes="member: 15418">Hmmm.. that thought really threw me for a loop!  I never ever thought about that possibility  When I was shooting events before I had a camera with 2 cards, (my D60 and D90) just out of sheer paranoia, I would switch cards every 1/2 hour, cycling between 4 SD cards so that in the worse possible case, I will have lost only 1/4 of my images if a card goes bad on me.  So, in an 8 hr shift on a convention event shoot, I would have opened and closed the card door 16 times!  Never had a door problem.So, out of curiosity, I just went and asked our camera repair tech here who has been doing repairs for last 15 years.  He said he's never seen a camera come in with a broken card door. He has seen a lot of bent pins for CF card and when it comes to broken door it’s always the battery door.  He showed me 6 cameras on his bench with broken battery door flaps waiting to be repaired. Broken latch is most common, followed by broken hinge.  He surmised that because the doors are spring-loaded to put pressure on the battery, there’s more stress on the hinges and when owner sometime forgot that the door is ajar and set the camera down, the stress is too much on the little wimpy hinge.  (His advice to prevent battery door problem is to really push down on the door against the battery spring before applying the latch instead of pushing and letting the latch “click” in place!)I pursued the question about the reliability of the card doors - they sure look more flimsy than the battery door! He agree that even though it’s exercised more frequently during normal use, there’s nothing to stress it. He suspects that there may be a few broken card doors out there but the camera don’t care and continue to work without the door or door latching properly so the owner don’t usually bring them in for repair (Labor $90/hr.) If your card door doesn’t latch, you can easily tape it in place, a solution not usually possible with battery doors - that’s why he thinks he sees only battery door repairs.  Ok, so that’s my story and I’m sticking with it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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