Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clive, Internal backup batteries are normally only used to power built in memory and internal functions such as clock and date, not displays etc. This is pretty much standard throughout the electronics industry. gene -------------- Original message from Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com>: -------------- > So, in the interest of science, I put the M8 into continuous shooting > and held down the shutter release to see how fast the Lexar Professional > 133x card is. After eight shots, it stopped. Dead. I mean, lifeless, no > LCD, nothing. Well, time to reboot. Remove and reinsert battery. Remove > and reinsert card. Nothing happens. Still dead. Take the CD card and > read it on the computer, ready to reformat. Card is fine, has all the > images on it. But wait, thought says to me. The battery was on 1 bar > last night - maybe try another battery. Pop in fresh battery. Works > fine. The first battery did not have enough juice to even light up the > display of battery level; I would have expected the internal battery to > do something, not just sit there with a dead camera. > It should have told me that the battery was dead. > > Does anyone from Leica monitor this list, or do I need to go and mumble > somewhere else? > -- > Clive > http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/ > > > > > on 3/23/2007 11:57 PM Wade Heninger said the following: > ... > > I find that I hit the buffer all the time with my regular Kingston 2 gb > > SD > > cards. They are not accelerated and for the shooting I'm doing now, I'm > > going to need to replace them. > > > > The transcend 4gb card works pretty good. I get about 10 shots before it > > starts to act up. The Kingston cards give me 3 or 4 and are glacial > > about > > write times compared to the transcends. It can take 20 or 30 seconds to > > clear > ... > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information