On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:03:01PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Paul Stenquist > > I have noticed on both the K10D & K20D with battery grips that when > the camera is set to use the battery in the grip first, it does not > automatically switch over to the battery in the camera when the > battery in the grip runs down.
I'm pretty sure that's documented behaviour. The decision on which battery to use is made at power-on time - to switch batteries, you need to power-cycle the camera. > I have to run the battery in the grip down until the battery level > indicator shows a blinking low battery symbol, then turn the camera > off. When I turn the camera back on the battery level indicator will > show the status of the battery in the camera. Usually the battery in > the camera shows no more than half charge at that point. > > I do not know if this behavior is characteristic of all K10D & K20D > cameras or peculiar to the two examples I have, although based on > the posts to this thread, I suspect it is common to all. The need to power-cycle the camera to switch batteries is expected. But the second battery only appearing to be half-charged is definitely not. I've hardly ever seen that behaviour with my K10D (or, for that matter, with either the predecessor *ist-D or successor K-5), although I always use batteries in both the camera and grip, and "use grip battery first" is my default setting. (And the second battery I use in the K10D is a third-party accessory, not a Pentax OEM battery; back in those days the price saving was substantial). -- 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.
