[Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks

[tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)]

A couple of dmr battery saving tricks are to set it to turn off the display, 
with no after shot review, and to manually wind the shutter by holding the 
wind lever in the stand-off position to deactivate the motor.  The display 
and motor seem to consume a lot of the battery.  Basically, shoot like a 
manual wind film camera!

I would like to hear anyone else's battery tips, too.

BTW, last week I found possibly the last new dmr battery in the US (at 
$225)!!!!!!!

Tom

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On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:49 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at 
gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweet Barking Cheese. 60-70 photos? Thanks Gary, you have done much to 
> assuage the horrible bitter envy that had been building up in the pit of 
> my stomach. I shall sleep easier tonight.
> 
> Gary Pinkerton sed:
> 
> Takes about an hour and a half if battery is depleted, for my batteries.
> Usually get 60-70 shots per battery nomally, have gotten over 90 if  I'm 
> sparing [no chimping, playing back, etc.]
> 
> A
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