Originally posted by desertwalker I just received the replacement K200, after sending my first on back for a memory card sticking problem. After reading several posts here I thought I was just being paranoid? Did I just have a slightly to thick card? It was stiff going in and it would not spring up easily for removal! I read the same statements over and over in this thread, so I figured it to be a camera weather sealing thing!
Needless to say I was thinking, did I just send back a perfectly good camera and just needed to try a different card?! So when the replacement arrived I was hesitant to put the old card in, but much to my delight it slid in smoothly, locked in place and ejected with no problems.
There is no seal for the SD card slot, at least for the K10 and GX10, only the door has seals. Why would there be a need for two seals? I think people get confused because in the Samsung GX10 exploded view and parts list it shows something square looking between the door and card slot, its figure number A214 and called the "SD Card Seal" believe it or not thats the sticker on the back of the SD card door that says "push to eject".
for proof look at figure number A 406 and figure out by looking what it is, well its called the "battery polarity seal" do you really think there is a seal there, under the battery door seals just for for the bottom of the battery? No its the battery polarity sticker, open the battery door and take a look.
So there is some bad info going around that the the SD card slot has weather sealing, it does not as far as I can see and tell by looking at the GX10 exploded view, now the K200 may be different but the K10 and GX10 only has seals around the door. It is a translation error in calling the stickers "seals" and they call lots of parts by the wrong common English name.