Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> >> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >> replies in your msgs. ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information