Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] Battery life indicator (M9)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:35:26 -0500

I love that 251 shots on a charge!
Not 250! Not  "a couple of hundred".
Where did it say this?  251 shots!?

I never head out with a camera with a half of a charge in it and expect to
get anything without a backup battery in the bag.


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> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:03:23 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Battery life indicator (M9)
> 
> I'm sorta pissed off. I checked the "Info" panel last night and it
> indicated that my battery was a little below 50% (I'd estimate over
> 40%) and that it was good for 251 shots. Planning to take at most 100
> frames the next afternoon, I didn't put the battery on charge. Guess
> what! It went totally dead after about 24 shots.
> 
> So, does the battery life indicator habitually lie, is my M9
> defective, or do I have a defective battery? Can anyone enlighten me
> based on their experience?
> 
> Herb
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> 
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