Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M7 and battery life
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:37:26 +1000
References: <200207252020.NAA10680@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <a05111700b9662dd22afc@[203.218.94.196]> <5.1.0.14.2.20020725211135.032c7a80@infoave.net>

>At 05:36 PM 7/25/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>I know this doesn't answer your question specifically, hopefully it's close.
>>:-)
>>
>>ted
>
>
>Well, I can say that I took six sets of extra batteries for the M7 
>to Honduras and never needed to change at all!  I was afraid it 
>would really eat up the batteries and knew I wouldn't be able to 
>find them in the middle of nowhere, so I took lots of extras.  They 
>are small after all.   I came back with all 12 batteries still in 
>their packages.  I took about 30 rolls with the M7 and when I got 
>back and had another assignment, I changed batteries just to be 
>safe; otherwise, the original 2 would still be in there!  They are 
>still registering full on the battery tester.

In my experience, never throw away the first set: they seem to last 
longer than any replacement set, and I'm not the only one to find 
this. Makes you wonder ;-)
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