Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But IS there an internal battery? A quick Google didn't turn up anything. If there is one, eventually it'll fail, and in that case the 'net should be full of comments, how-tos, and calumnies. Must be a pretty uncommon problem. After all, who lets their electronic camera sit unused for 9 years and then tries to re-use it? I wonder if Nikon ever even thought about this sort of thing happening. ?howard On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote: > Either or both of those things are very likely, as far as I know. The > internal battery has to have some charge in it for the whole camera to > work, and capacitors are the most finicky component, if you don't consider > switches, buttons and variable resistors. > > Henning > > > > On 2014-04-18, at 2:52 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: >> >> An internal intermediary battery that gets charged by the main batteries, >> purpose being to preserve the computer's data when the main batteries get >> discharged, and without a charge on which the camera won't work? And as >> it charges up, starts to run the camera incrementally? The manual makes >> no mention of an internal battery or of a period of recovery if the >> camera's been unused for years (maybe Nikon didn't even know this could >> happen). >> >> An electrolytic capacitor that loses its polarity in years of non-use, >> then re-forms over several minutes after new batteries are installed? >> >> Anyone know or have thoughts? >> >> ?howard