Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] Was there a thread where some vintages of M8 batteries had "short life" on M9 cameras?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:19:32 +0530
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Vick,
Junk the battery. Believe me these things have a habit of totally
failing exactly when you need them the most. It is false economy,
IMHO, to economize on batteries and cards at all - at the first hint
of misbehavior, throw them out!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Was there a thread where some vintages of M8 batteries had "short life" on
> M9 cameras?
>
> And it was worsened in cold weather?
>
> Seems like I have one battery, that might be M8 vintage, where I had it
> fully charged and it showed "low battery" after walking around for 45
> minutes this morning, and it was 5 deg C or so.
>
> I swapped it out, shot for an hour, and swapped it back in, and it seems to
> be working again, showing 75%.
>
> Any way to make the battery do better?
>
> regards
> Vick
>
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In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Was there a thread where some vintages of M8 batteries had "short life" on M9 cameras?)