Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] M8 batteries... I think I am giving up......
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:58:38 +0930
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I took 10 batteries and a solar charger to Africa lasy year.  The
charger worked well, but a little slowly.  It was hard to use at times
because we were moving often.  I ended up setting the panel up on the
top of my pack.  Looked pretty funny: solar powered Marty.

M

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:18 AM, John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> wrote:
> How about a solar charger? Might cut your battery weight by quite a bit.
>
> John
>
> On 2010-06-07, at 1:02 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> But, as much as I travel in places without electricity, I need at least
>> 10-15 batteries for most trips. ?There's no way I'd buy 10 Leica batteries
>> at Leica prices. ?All of mine (except the original 3) came from Hong Kong
>> and work just fine.
>
>
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