On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:12:34 -0700, SMS wrote:
The problem is that it's not the battery door that breaks, it's the
whole camera body that breaks.

SMS is right. This tiny flimsy piece of plastic holding the stress of the
battery door is part of the body of the camera. So when it eventually
breaks (within weeks in some cases, within a year in others - but given the
design, it just has to break sooner rather than later) - the camera is
kaput.

Now, I wonder why Nikon didn't just put a paperclip-like metal pin in the
camera body. It would have cost pennies (how much can it cost) per camera
and they'd not have the ruined reputation that the entire coolpix series
has now.

Nobody who ever owned these coolpix cameras would ever trust Nikon again.