Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, but you're in luck. Good Friday is the only Friday when such batteries may be offered for sale. If they're dead, they'll rise again on Sunday. On a (slightly) more serious note: I have about 8 or 10 non-Leica batteries for the pre-M M's, which cost me about $10-15 a number of years ago. Most give me about 75% of the number of shots that my most recent 'real' battery gives me, but then most have had quite a few cycles. I've never experienced the problems that Kyle has. They show a full charge at the start, then just go flat quicker. These 3rd party batteries are of 3 different types, or are labelled 3 different ways. All behave the same. So far I've had one Leica and 2 3rd party batteries go completely dead. The total amount I've paid for all the 3rd party batteries is the same as one Leica battery costs. Henning ps: I'm now out of here; off to Spain for 3 weeks to see Lluis and Nathan among other things. Be good. On 2015-03-30, at 7:16 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > So I have this question, based on Kyle's research: If I have 3 third party > M8/9 batteries purchased in about 2007 on eBay, and if I no longer have an > M8 or an M9 (or an appropriate battery charger) on which to test them, do I > have to wait until Friday to offer them for sale? > > --Cautious Bob > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:13 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug < > leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > >> so ? recap of what i?ve figured out so far: >> >> 1) I have four third party batteries for my m9 and one ?real? battery. >> 2) M9 thinks the third party batteries lose their charge almost instantly >> and go to ?battery low? warning that blocks the screen >> 3) volt meter thinks the batteries are still charged >> >> so ? update: >> >> I discovered while tooling around in the manual that when the ?warning: >> battery low? screen comes on, pressing ?set? tells the camera to ignore >> the >> warning and pressing the shutter release immediately after makes it go >> away, if not permanently, then for a very long time (like days) after >> that, >> while the battery will still show up on the ?info? section as having a >> charge of about 4% it?s actually fully charged and you can continue using >> it. The downside is that you don?t necessarily know how uncharged it is >> without getting a volt meter out because for some reason the M9 either >> can?t or refuses to read the voltage of non-leica batteries consistently >> (sometimes it will display the charge accurately, but i haven?t found a >> pattern to it yet), although they power the camera fine (people here have >> said ?nay? but I?m still thinking there might be some sort of propriatary >> chipping in the OEM batteries). So, upside, you can get four M8/M9 >> batteries for $40 on eBay, and have enough juice for two weeks of heavy >> work without recharging as long as you don?t need to know the exact level >> of the charge. >> >> My experience is that one battery lasts about five days of regular >> (~75-200 photos/day) shooting. >> >> kc >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com