[Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

May be just get a few rolls of Velvia :-)

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Tom Schofield <tomschofield at 
comcast.net>wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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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