Originally posted by dcshooter In my experience, the design of the K5 SD card slot has always been quite good, and I have a first generation model and have removed the card literally thousands of times with absolutely no issue.. Simply push the card in to eject it, and it pops right out. I have rather large fingers, too.
I imagine this complaint stems from one or two causes:
1. A broken eject spring, in which case it should be sent in for warranty repair (which can be a real, but relatively rare problem)
2. The user not realizing you have to push the card inward to eject and rather simply prying it out with his/her fingernails
I also strongly suspect it's the latter in most cases, since I also recall (anecdotally) that the decided majority of people who claimed to have sensor stain problems with the early runs when asked for example shots provided ones that clearly were mere dust particles yet insisted that their camera was defective, indicating a proclivity among the user base to blame any problem on the machine (especially if there was a "similar" genuine issue they could latch onto) without adequately exploring whether their own activity was to blame.
I also remember many years ago in my IT support days that every single time I got a call for a "stuck" PCMCIA card in a laptop, the user didn't realize that the slot either had a similar push to eject mechanism or a separate release button next to the slot and was simply trying to yank the card out.
dcshooter and Fogel70, you are both right on that account of the perceived SD problems... I do remember there was a article about some SD cards are slightly (albeit tiny) larger or thicker than the standard size so when it is pushed into the SD card slot, it does not stick out as easy as some other brands. My personal experience is that I have never had problems with handling the SD cards from my K-100, K10, K-7 (all previously own), k-5, k-01 and Q. And I have always removed the cards when uploading the photos to my computer for processing (I take RAW) every time.... in other words, I have tested the in-and-out action of the SD card/slot countless number of times without having to worry about wearing out any of the parts. My shutter count of the k-5 is approaching 600k.
Originally posted by Fogel70 I have had problem with removing SD-card on my K-7, and my conclusion is that some brands use slightly larger size on the card which it makes it more difficult to remove, and sometimes it get "stuck" so you have to pull it out. I have never had any problems with Sandisk card though (which I usually prefer to use).