I jumped on this deal today. Can't wait to welcome it into the Pentax barn and put it through its paces.
Yonnie On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree, I shot 1929 images on a single Pentax fully charged battery > in the grip on one K5 last night but that's using back button focus, > no image post view, no flash and no video and minimal chimping. I gave > up putting an additional battery in the body when using the grip as > I've had too many battery related lockups. > > > > On 14 December 2013 07:29, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: >> On Dec 13, 2013, at 13:22 , CollinB <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote: >> >>>> I am very tempted to get a 2nd K-3 and, but am not convinced that I want >>> the grip - I already have one for my first K-3. And I am not interested in >>> the DA50/1.8. >>> >>> Two weeks ago I shot a party with the K5. >>> Had I only used the internal battery and swapped as needed I would have had >>> to swap at least once. Maybe twice for a sense of security. >> >> Wow! >> >> When I shoot rock concerts, I shoot upwards of 1,000 images on the K5 (and >> earlier the K7) and the only time I've ever had to swap batteries mid-stream >> is if I've been foolish enough to start out with a not-already-fully-charged >> battery. >> >> Are you using the built-in flash, or something else that would chew up your >> battery quicker than usual? >> >> Or are you shooting 2K-3K of images? >> >> -Charles >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > 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.
