Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/23

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Subject: [Leica] SF-20 batteries
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Mon Aug 23 18:02:16 2004
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>What is the shelf life of the batteries for the SF-20 ? I opened a 2-pack of
>Duracell 123 batteries, inserted them into the flash, and all I got was a
>faint "tic tic." I hardly ever use flash; I store the SF-20 without the
>batteries, and don't remember when I bought the spares.


The shelf life for the lithiums should be about 10 years.....

Are you sure the batteries are bad? The flash is designed so that in 
'TTL' mode, the flash won't powerup until it has a signal from the 
camera.  Make sure to do your testing in 'A' or 'M' mode.

Karen

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Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/