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Mark Cassino Photography
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Battery Management
Hi Mark,
Those batteries that came with the camera are 3CV lithiums, and they won't get too old for another eight or nine years. They're great as backups.
Paul
On Apr 10, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Mark Cassino wrote:
Thanks to all who replied - looks like I should fire up the charger!
I still have the original batteries that camera with the *ist-D, which I suppose are lithium. there are just 2 batteries, each on filling two AA slots. Those are my backups - though I should probably use them before they get too old and put some lithiums in the bag as a backup.
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I usually just charge whatever I can and not worry about the fine points. Don't use a flash. switch to lithiums. Lately, I've been having batteries quit on me that I thought were charged, which is a nuisance even if you tend to carry a lot of batteries. I made one interesting discovery due to this recently though. All of my rechargeables had pooped out on me so I went looking for some disposables so I could keep shooting. I generally get the lithium AAs which really last pretty well. this time all I could find were alkalines so I got the fanciest ones they had (why not?) and was pleasantly surprised when I got around 150 shots out of them. I'm wondering if the istD has the low voltage cutout situation you here about with some other cameras.
