Bipin, I've got some 3rd party batteries in use with my K-5. I just bought 2 spares and still have an older one (K-7 spare?).
Battery power seems to be the first place to check for problems on the K-5. This is tricky because the battery can look OK - but not really... Turning the camera off and then back seems to give the battery a little boost. But then the problems return. I've encountered this even while using the battery grip with 6 NiCa's. The K-5 is picky about having enough power! This often catches me unaware, because the K-5 has long battery life. Compared to previous Pentax digitals, the K-5 is a poweer miser. So running out of juice is always a surprise. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Folks, I have been using high quality 3rd Party Batteries from > Amazon com and Sandisk Extreme cards with my K-5 and have not had any > of the problems reported here. In fact the 3rd Party Batteries work > just as well as the original Pentax at 1/4 to 1/3rd of the price. > I do clean the battery contacts from time to time, as these batteries > do not have gold plated contacts. I have noticed that (2) of the 3rd > Party batteries do give some (60 to 70) shots lesser than the > original. Other wise they are just as good. > On my K20D I exclusively use 3rd Party batteries for some (2&1/2) years now. > Bipin. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
