Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, the Nikon batteries have a counter of sorts, and the camera will fail if you use 3rd party batteries, my experience. Now I'm waiting until Leica issues a solar energy camera, very handy for very long exposure night shots ;-) Keep reading French ;-) Amiti?s Philippe Le 14 mars 13 ? 22:23, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > Fro my Leica digital I used a Leica battery. > Fro my Nikon D whatever I used Nikon batteries. > I can tell you when the time ever comes for me to buy a seven thousand > dollar camera the last thing I'm going to do is go shopping for > cheap third > party batteries. I'll blow a few more hundred and get a couple more > batteries with a red dot on it. > This thread has come on this list several times and every seeing > time the > only person who seemed to hold this opinion was me. > Now I am feeling vindicated up the yin yang for the tables to have > been > turned. > The only way I've not won out is the fact that using the cheap > batteries do > not seemed to have ruined any cameras. I'd have thought there was a > good > chance that might happen. > > I read a book on batteries in photography once it was by the Aaton > company > head engineer or guy own owned the company or both.. > A French company who made motion picture cameras and batteries. > Gave me a healthy respect for them. But since then the landscape has > changed. Its strewn with dead cheap batteries for one. ...Seeping > toxic > waste into the top soil or water underneath. > > > I like expensive batteries. Silver ones. Light. Lith? > I say "give me the most expensive battery you got" then charge me > double! > > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE