I had my F5 for a month now, and I have gone through 4-5 sets of batteries, putting in
brand new ones every time. I have only taken 6-8 rolls in total. While it is true that
I leave the camera on when I am just walking for hours, I didn't think there would be
a big drain if the camera is ON but not in use.
With slightly cold temperature, like 32 F, the camera batteries just give up.
Today the indicator was showing full battery power when I started taking pictures.
[batteries have been in the camera for a while]. Within an hour, and 10-15 pictures
later [but camera was ON all the time], I saw the camera power drop to half, and then
the battery sign was blinking and the camera would not take any more pictures. The
temperature was close to 32 F. But this is not cold. -20 F is cold. I put in new
batteries, and all was fine. I am using Alkalines.
So, I see 3 causes
1) battery drainage Nikon problem - but this problem has been known for a long time
and should have been fixed. My serial # is 3114130, bought 1 month ago.
2) battery drainage when camera ON but not used - isn't this really 1) ?
3) crap batteries. These I bought from the camera store, they have a less known name.
I should try Energizer/Panasonic/Duracell perhaps? I have only used this one brand
since I bought the camera.
Has anyone seen a problem with (a recent serial#) F5 draining the batteries?
Robert
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