Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/09

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Subject: [Leica] Pentax K100D
From: profmason at yahoo.com (John Mason)
Date: Wed Aug 9 09:30:33 2006

Don (I believe) wrote:

>I still like the AA battery power as you can use 
>rechargeables, lithiums, cheap at the corner 
>store, or the very expensive CR-2's.  After watching 
>the Nikon crowd in search or ENEL-3e's have a ready 
>source of power is a good thing. 

Agreed.  It's the reason that I picked up an istDL to
use as a travel camera.  (That and a drawer that's
full of Pentax manual focus lenses.)  AA are
everywhere.  Recharging is sometimes impossible.  The
set of liths that I have in the camera now have lasted
for over 1400 exposures (no more than half a dozen
with flash) and show no signs of pooping out.

But, as I said earlier, what I really want is for CV
to produce a 6 to 10 megapixel M-mount rangefinder on
a (slightly modified) R2A/R3A body, powered by AAs. 
Would be a killer travel/documentary camera.  And
cheap.

--John

J Mason
Charlottesville, Virginia

DEMOCRACY OF SPEED, a Photo Documentary Project:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/john-m/john-m.html

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