Happy New Years!

Here we are now, 2008. This is going to be a year of innovations, of much change. I feel it is going to be a real renaissance online!
But as promised, here is the first of a 8 part series of self help and advice on simple, yet effective ways of preventing problems, fixing minor inconveniences and extending the life of your digital camera.
Today we will talk about the battery doors and memory card doors. Our parent site, DarnToothySam.com sells a lot of battery doors and memory card doors, daily. Typically they come from Canon cameras.
There are some very easy and conscious things consumers can do to keep their battery door and memory card doors from breaking.

When inserting the battery or memory card into the camera, watch which direction you are putting the battery or memory card in. Many times it feels that the battery or memory card is inserted or seated properly (especially on older Kodak models) but it is in backwards. If you try to close the door at that point, a lot of times of the door will catch or hit the card or battery and snap off.

Keep in mind these are very fragile plastic pieces, many times the only way they stay on is with several small tabs of plastic. If your battery door needs to slide to open (Many Kodak models are this way), be careful they are lined up properly and not at an angle. Any stress on the battery door or memory card door tabs will cause a stress fracture and the tabs with break.
If the tabs break on the door, you should be fine, BUT if they break on the camera, you probably will need to look into buying a new case to replace the tabs.

Here is a link to DarnToothySam's Digital Camera Parts store, with the battery doors already searched for!

Lastly, and this should be pretty obvious, just be conscious and self-aware of taking care of your camera. This goes for all things, from LCD screens, to battery doors, to lenses. Dropping a camera, or getting it wet is a quick way to ruin, or have costly repairs installed. Just be careful and happy shooting :)

-Eric @ MyDigiHelp.com, DarnToothySam.com