Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:18 PM -0400 Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: > At 05:36 PM 7/25/02 -0700, you wrote: > >> I know this doesn't answer your question specifically, hopefully it's >> close. :-) >> >> ted > > > Well, I can say that I took six sets of extra batteries for the M7 to > Honduras and never needed to change at all! I was afraid it would really > eat up the batteries and knew I wouldn't be able to find them in the > middle of nowhere, so I took lots of extras. They are small after all. > I came back with all 12 batteries still in their packages. I took about > 30 rolls with the M7 and when I got back and had another assignment, I > changed batteries just to be safe; otherwise, the original 2 would still > be in there! They are still registering full on the battery tester. Did you run into the problem I had coming back from the Middle East? Namely that, if they hand-check your camera bag in the secondary gate check, they won't let you take the batteries on board in carry-on luggage if they find them? Ridiculous, but true. My guess is that the security people have a directive that bombs might be disguised as batteries. I suppose this is meant to apply to D cells and the like, but we all know that logic isn't meant to interfere these days. - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html