Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Several threads or discussions, I think Vick. Your battery may be near the end of its useful life? You could try discharging it fully by shooting with it and then charge it from there. The colder conditions will certainly influence its performance. The current M9 firmware is more battery quality sensitive in order to reduce the likelihood of write fails too. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 24 October 2013 05:56, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote: > Was there a thread where some vintages of M8 batteries had "short life" on > M9 cameras? > > And it was worsened in cold weather? > > Seems like I have one battery, that might be M8 vintage, where I had it > fully charged and it showed "low battery" after walking around for 45 > minutes this morning, and it was 5 deg C or so. > > I swapped it out, shot for an hour, and swapped it back in, and it seems > to be working again, showing 75%. > > Any way to make the battery do better? > > regards > Vick > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information >