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Subject: [Leica] My last aftermarket battery just died
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:35:45 -0400

Love that French cine gear.!!


On 3/14/13 5:33 PM, "Philippe Amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:

> Mark,
>   the Nikon batteries have a counter of sorts, and the camera will
> fail if you use 3rd party batteries, my experience.
> Now I'm waiting until Leica issues a solar energy camera, very handy
> for very long exposure night shots ;-)
> Keep reading French ;-)
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
> 
> Le 14 mars 13 ? 22:23, Mark Rabiner a ?crit :
> 
>> Fro my Leica digital I used a Leica battery.
>> Fro my Nikon D whatever I used Nikon batteries.
>> I can tell you when the time ever comes for me to buy a seven thousand
>> dollar camera the last thing I'm going to do is go shopping for
>> cheap third
>> party batteries. I'll blow a few more hundred and get a couple more
>> batteries with a red dot on it.
>> This thread has come on this list several times and every seeing
>> time the
>> only person who seemed to hold this opinion was me.
>> Now I am feeling vindicated up the yin yang for the tables to have
>> been
>> turned.
>> The only way I've not won out is the fact that using the cheap
>> batteries do
>> not seemed to have ruined any cameras. I'd have thought there was a
>> good
>> chance that might happen.
>> 
>> I read a book on batteries in photography once it was by the Aaton
>> company
>> head engineer or guy own owned the company or both..
>> A French company who made motion picture cameras and batteries.
>> Gave me a healthy respect for them. But since then the landscape has
>> changed. Its strewn with dead cheap batteries for one. ...Seeping
>> toxic
>> waste into the top soil or water underneath.
>> 
>> 
>> I like expensive batteries. Silver ones. Light. Lith?
>> I say "give me the most expensive battery you got" then charge me
>> double!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
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