Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]G'day Tina, that sort of battery life is amazing. I would be very doubtful that it will ever "match" the M7 but after using my first digital which chewed through a set of batteries in less than 2 hours, I thought battery life would end up saving film for a few more years ;-) Seems not. When do you head off to China? Cheers On 09/10/2005, at 9:47 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:21 PM 10/8/2005, you wrote: >> Hi Tina, >> Please check ouot Marc Wiliam's impressions on Photonet at >> >> http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00DE6M >> >> about battery life. He gets about 250 pix per charge. >> >> Best Regards > > And I get about 2500 with the Canon 1DMII!! It's not that I object to > carrying extra batteries or the expense of extra batteries. I just > don't want to have to worry about running out of juice in the middle > of something important. I never had to worry about that with the M7. > Those batteries would last for weeks. I hope for and expect the same > from digital. I was disappointed in the Canon 10D, my first digital > SLR. I would have to change batteries at least once a day on long > jobs. I ended up carrying about 10 extra batteries!! With the Canon > 1DMII I carry 2 and don't usually have to use the second one. For two > weeks in Honduras and again for two weeks in Guatemala, I took 3000+ > photos each time. Each trip, I used one 1DMII battery for more than > a week, replaced it with a fully charged battery and came home with > more than half of that battery still charged. > > Another problem I have with the Canon 10D batteries, and I'm not sure > if it's the same with the DMR, but it certainly is with the the > Digilux, is that when I charge all of the spare batteries ahead of > time, they lose the charge as they sit on the shelf or in my luggage. > I can put a fully recharged battery into my camera and find that the > power is already more than half gone. That doesn't happen with the > 1DMII. That battery stays fully charged for weeks until I get around > to using it. > > These may seem like trivial problems to somebody who uses their camera > once or twice a week, but for somebody who has to rely on it every > day, it's very important. I have been very pleasantly pleased with > the life of the Canon 1DMII battery and don't really care how much it > weighs! It's worth it to know that I'm not going to have to stop and > replace it. > > And I do have a connection for the car battery for the Canon, too. > Mine came with every possible connection for every electrical outlet > in the world! I'm carrying quite a few of them to China with me. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair