Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina - you have made my day! B.D. wrote: Leica - We Taught Ken Lay Everything He Knows. Now we find that Leica offers the same battery as the Panasonic at almost 2X the price. Seems the printer manufacturers get you by the ink. Leica gets you by the batteries! But soon, thanks to good folks like Tina and Ernie, the word will get out and Leica will have to sell their hot-shot batteries to someone like Liquidation.com while Panasonic reaps the profits from square-deal merchandising. I love my Leica, and I want to see the company grow and prosper, but this is NOT the way to do it. Ted in Olalla - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT Digilux 1 batteries are in! > At 09:51 AM 7/25/02 -0400, you wrote: > >For those with the Digilux I wanted to report that replacement/additional > >batteries are now in country (USA) - I just got mine from Opticsusa.com . > >The Leica sponsored Digital Forum indicated that the battery for the > >Panasonic version of the Digilux Won't work in the Digilux - this I find > >strange and may not be true. Tina you would know if this is true of not - > >any help? Anyway the Panasonic website has the item backordered but it is > >$49 vs $$92 for the Leica product. > > Thanks for the news, Ernie. Now why would they say that? ;-) They are > exactly the same batteries. I just took the one out of the Panasonic and > put it in the Leica and it works fine. They are the same size, 7.2v > 1400mAh Li-ion. Both are made by Matsushita in Japan. The only visible > difference is one says "Leica" and the other says "Panasonic". I think > I'll order the cheaper one. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > images available from: > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.mira.com > http://www.agpix.com > http://www.newscom.com > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html