In article , Arklin K.
wrote:

While dpreview has discussed the Nikon engineering flaw in detail:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read....essage=2267289

that's just one person. big deal.

i *have* a coolpix 990, just like the person in that thread, and its
battery door works fine and that's after the camera has fallen a few
times and even has a crack in the casing. the camera still works fine.

it's also a 10 year old post about a 12 year old camera, so it's not
actually relevant to anything nikon currently makes.

QUOTE: All the Nikon Coolpix camera bodies break at the battery latch
door.

definitely not all.

Once you look at the tiny plastic catch engineered by Nikon, you'll see
that the latch is going to break no matter what you do with that camera,
baby it or not.

bull****. it doesn't break in normal use.