Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] How long is an M8 battery supposed to last ?
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:02:34 -0400
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which ebay versions would you recommend?

ric


On May 26, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Marty Deveney wrote:

> I have three Leica batteries and five of the eBay third party ones.
> My original Leica one now only shows two bars on the camera when I
> fully charge it and put it in, but I seem to get about the same number
> of shots.  It's been through a charge/discharge cycle maybe 30-40
> times.  I I have no idea how many cycles it might be from needing to
> be discarded; maybe they fail catastrophically, or maybe they just
> eventually run out of steam.  I'm interested to know if anyone has had
> that happen, apart from ones that arrived dead in the box (one of my
> Leica ones came that way and was replaced, and I have read that some
> of the third party ones have shown the same problem).
>
> Marty
>
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