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Subject: [Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks
From: tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:13:56 -0700
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Camera West of Walnut Creek, CA, the West Coast Leica Boutique.  I asked, 
and they said it was the last.  But go ahead and ask, maybe they just want 
to ration them out.

Tom

Sent from my iPad

On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp at msn.com> wrote:

> 
> Tom 
> I'm curious now, where did you find that last battery?
> Gary
> 
>> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:47:20 -0700
>> From: richard at imagecraft.com
>> To: lug at leica-users.org
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks
>> 
>> 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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