Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Friends, A couple of questions about batteries for the M6. What's the best kind? How long should they last with the camera getting semi-daily use? The reason I'm asking is that when I go out shooting in the cold (it's -21 celsius here today!) the light meter often doesn't light up, or else it's very, very dim. If I take the batteries out of the camera and warm them up in my hands or pockets for a while, they come back to life, and the light meter gets brighter. Is the diminishing power of the batteries the result of the cold, or the resistance to the cold of the type of battery I have, or is it a case that they get too cold too easily in the M6, or might the batteries just be weak? I haven't had the batteries that long in the camera (about two months), but then I don't really know what the life of batteries should be, nor do I know what the best batteries for the cold are. [I've gone through a few sets of batteries in the M6 over the past couple years; whereas with my old Nikon FM, I had a set of batteries that went through heavy use for 7 years and were still going strong before I replaced them -- I gave them a pre-emptive replacement, being fearful that they were eventually going to die -- then the next set of batteries I got for the same camera died only after a year. I might have thrown away a magical set of batteries.] Cheers, Dave - ------------------------------------------------ DGF PHOTOGRAPHY http://home.golden.net/~tekapo