R10 cheap battery door.

Photato wrote:

BirdShooter7 wrote:

Maybe I’m missing something obvious but it seems like it would be unlikely to break the door in typical use. I’ve used the R10 quite a bit and the battery door doesn’t feel flimsy to me. It’s not like you’re going to be using the camera with the door open so the only risk seems to be when you are inserting or removing the battery and for those operations it seems like you’d have to try to break it. I don’t think it’s something I’d worry about personally. I haven’t heard any reports of it breaking so far. I can’t really think of any reason to make the door detachable if a battery grip isn’t going to be available. It seems like having the door detachable could be a liability as you might accidentally detach it and lose it. Since there isn’t a planned battery grip for the R10, why make the battery door more complicated than it needs to be?

I'm not going into an endless debate on how likely the battery door is to break.
Any moving part has a finite life, by wear and tear or accident, and Cameras are not the exception. IMO, this is the most breakable part of many cameras.

Obviously, Canon designed the R10 door deliberately, not to be removable, perhaps to discourage its use by professionals with third party battery grips. That is fine, I understand.
But in doing so, made it unnecessarily hard to repair.
Otherwise they would have designed the hinge like the 40D, a very simple part as well which only difference is a tiny gap in the body hinge to easily remove the door when needed.

In a very detailed camera specification sheet, there would be a row containing "Removable Battery Door" and for the R10 is No.

This is not good for repairability, no matter how some like to spin it.
Is it a big deal? Perhaps not, until it breaks.

I kind of have the impression that cameras in this price range are more or less considered disposable and ease of repair isn’t really a priority.  This whole discussion seems to be a bit of a tempest in a teapot.