Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:21 PM 10/8/2005, you wrote: >Hi Tina, >Please check ouot Marc Wiliam's impressions on Photonet at > >http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00DE6M > >about battery life. He gets about 250 pix per charge. > >Best Regards And I get about 2500 with the Canon 1DMII!! It's not that I object to carrying extra batteries or the expense of extra batteries. I just don't want to have to worry about running out of juice in the middle of something important. I never had to worry about that with the M7. Those batteries would last for weeks. I hope for and expect the same from digital. I was disappointed in the Canon 10D, my first digital SLR. I would have to change batteries at least once a day on long jobs. I ended up carrying about 10 extra batteries!! With the Canon 1DMII I carry 2 and don't usually have to use the second one. For two weeks in Honduras and again for two weeks in Guatemala, I took 3000+ photos each time. Each trip, I used one 1DMII battery for more than a week, replaced it with a fully charged battery and came home with more than half of that battery still charged. Another problem I have with the Canon 10D batteries, and I'm not sure if it's the same with the DMR, but it certainly is with the the Digilux, is that when I charge all of the spare batteries ahead of time, they lose the charge as they sit on the shelf or in my luggage. I can put a fully recharged battery into my camera and find that the power is already more than half gone. That doesn't happen with the 1DMII. That battery stays fully charged for weeks until I get around to using it. These may seem like trivial problems to somebody who uses their camera once or twice a week, but for somebody who has to rely on it every day, it's very important. I have been very pleasantly pleased with the life of the Canon 1DMII battery and don't really care how much it weighs! It's worth it to know that I'm not going to have to stop and replace it. And I do have a connection for the car battery for the Canon, too. Mine came with every possible connection for every electrical outlet in the world! I'm carrying quite a few of them to China with me. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com