You're right, of course, but for the "average" photographer, as most of us are, being able to take 50+ flash-assisted photographs in one furious session, and after that being able to take twice that many if you want to...all on a single set of batteries, well, that's quite impressive! How many of us NEED to take 200 to 400 photographs in a single session, especially a lot of them with flash? It shows not just how battery technology has come along, but how camera manufacturers have fine-tuned their products to be more and more efficient consumers of precious battery power! The more I read about the little Optio S, the more I'm tempted to buy one just to carry around with me, everywhere I go!
keith whaley Heiko Hamann wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > on 09 Aug 03 you wrote in pentax.list: > > >I had a pleasant surprise this evening. I shot 53 "frames" in the Optio > >S at a wedding reception, used flash on all 53 and still had over 1/2 > >charge left in the battery. > > That's very fine for such a tiny camera. But you should try an Optio > 450/550 it gives you 200-400 pictures (depenent on flash usage) with one > battery! > > Cheers, Heiko
