John, I don't usually notice the battery at half. I shot 5-6 in continuous mode and noticed the battery go to half, and then comeback up to full...although not for many more shots. You really have to be aware. I don't have the battery grip. I carry a spare. Regards, Bob S.
On 10/14/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Rod Connan" > > > I would suggest the setup and work flow I use. > > > > I carry a battery in the camera (The Pentax original) and a battery in the > > battery grip. > > > > I set 'Select battery' in Set-up menu 3/3 to 'Grip First'. > > > > In usage this means that the body battery is ignored and the grip battery > > supplies the system. > > > > One would have hoped that there would have been an automatic changeover to > > the body battery when the grip battery is exhausted - sadly, this is not so! > > > > But - you can quickly resume shooting on the Body battery by simply turning > > the camera OFF and then immediately ON. This takes only a moment. Then you > > can change the Grip battery at a convenient moment. When you do this, the > > body battery shuts down and the grip battery again becomes the primary > > source. > > > > The beauty of this setup is that you never have an unexpected delay longer > > than the time it takes to flick the camera switch to OFF then back to ON > > after waking up to why your camera just stopped <GRIN> > > > > I usually top up the Body battery when I think of it and when I expect to be > > using more than one fully charged battery as I invariably recharge the Grip > > battery after taking any images during a day so the body battery is pretty > > rarely used. > > > > Hope this is of interest - Rod > > > It is of GREAT interest. It would have been even more help, if I'd known > it at the time. I did have it set to "Grip First" in the menu. Don't > remember if I got that idea here or from one of the magazine reviews I read. > > What I expected was it would show "half" in the window after the first > battery ran down, and would switch to the other battery. > > That makes sense doesn't it? > > So, evidently I had one charged battery and one depleted battery and > could have continued shooting if I'd only known. > > Except that, thinking back, I turned it off and back on and was only > able to get one more shot before it shut down again. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
