Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] Battery life
From: john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:54:11 +1300
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DSLRs are different beasts to small cameras and take many more shots per
charge. Yes it was really that bad which has surprised/shocked me ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----

Is it really that bad? I typically get hundreds to thousands of shots on my
D3...
On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, John McMaster wrote:

> Thanks, that is the minimum I would expect. 
> 
> I have been testing and battery life is as I would hope for so I 
> suspect that it is the way that I carry the camera, the same as I do with
the M9....
> 
> 
> I wrap the neck strap around my wrist and carry the camera in my hand, 
> while walking that would make the autofocus go from near to far and 
> back again continuously (until it turns off after two minutes). This 
> would give it far more use than if I carried around my neck or over my 
> shoulder - sound believable?
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> You think in this day and age that 55 photos/battery is acceptable? I 
>> suspect that this is far less than it should do so will be testing....
>> 
>> john
> 
> John,
> I get about 200 shots per charged battery with my X100 but I have auto 
> review turned off.
> (Image Disp - page 2 of set up with software version 1.11) Howard
> 
> 




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