Brendan MacRae wrote: > > --- Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'm holding out hope that they come out with an >>adapter to put AA's in >>the battery grip. That would give us the best of >>both worlds :) > > > Not going to happen. As someone mentioned earlier, the > camera simply uses too much power for AA's. In the > K100D review this month's Pop Photo mentioned how the > camera provides 70 shots on alkaline AA's...terrible > performance. Certainly it does better with other bats > but the SR system and other things seem to really chew > up power in the new cameras so AA's are going the way > of the Dodo for sure. > > -Brendan >
Brendan, 70 shots off Alkaline AA's would be an improvement. 50 or less was typical of the D and DS. Lithium and NiMH's are far superior and give 10 times or more as much life as Alkaline. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
