With my K5 and Sigma 70-200/2.8 non-OS with the rear screen off and af on the rear button plus saving RAW+jpg I can regularly get over 1000 shots to a single battery :)
On 13 February 2014 08:50, Jan van Wijk <pen...@dfsee.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:54:16 +1100 Rob Studdert wrote: >> >>Jan, only one of my Sigma lenses has OS and I don't use it as it's a >>17-50mm and offeres no advantage over in body SR but it does work. > > Yes, I guess for sucg a short lenas there is little difference ... > >>That said the electronics required to stabilize the moving internal >>element still use power so the OS lenses are more power hungry then >>their non-OS counter-parts. > > Certainly true yes, and it IS noticable, but I stll got several > hundreds shots from a single K5 battery. > > And I really like the 'stabilized' viewfinder at 500mm :) > > Regards, JvW > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery > > > -- > 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.
