----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" Subject: Enablement: D-BG 2
>I finally ordered the D-BG 2 battery grip and an extra D-LI50 battery, for > the K10D. > I was surprised that the prices for these things seem to vary a lot - like > a > 100%. > > I don't really need the extra power - there's something like 1000 shots in > one battery charge - and I rarely do more than 1000 shots in a row. ANd I > have the *ist D as back-up. > But I cerrtainly like the grip - extra release and other controls - a lot. > It's brilliant. > Anyway - I guess there's an extra security in having one extra, charged > battery at hand, all the time :-) > > The *ist D was said to have a problem, dealing with both batteries, > right? > Does the K10D suffer from this disease too? One of the reasons Pentax went to a proprietary battery was to get away from battery related problems. The K10 seems good. I have my camera set to draw from the battery in the grip first, and then the in camera battery second. When the first battery dies, the camera doesn't swith seamlessly to the other one, I get a dead battery indicator when battery one dies. When this happens, turn the camera off and then back on and it switches to the other battery. Setting the camera to auto choose which battery it is drawing from eliminates this, but I like to know when my first battery is dead. The grip will hold both a spare card and the remote release, which is nice. A small irritant is that it would be nice to be able to put another card into the slot that holds the release, but they built the release narrower than an SD card, so a card wont fit. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
