Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and SD cards
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Mon Mar 26 06:20:51 2007

Don't' worry.  I get at least 500-600 shots per battery.  I bought 3
batteries when everyone was going off about the battery life, and I've found
that was just unnecessary...




On 3/25/07 9:39 PM, "Clive Moss" <clive.moss@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on it. Just got about 80 shots and down to 1 bar again. But
> that's good enough for now - I tend to average no more than 100
> exposures per day, so with two batteries I should squeak by. I do hope
> it gets up to the 400 or so level - thats what the manual says it should
> do. While checking that number, I found a comment in the manual that low
> battery is indicated by an acoustic signal - I had turned all sound off.
> Just turned it back on again.
> Clive
> http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> on 3/25/2007 9:10 PM grduprey@mchsi.com said the following:
>> Clive,
>> 
>> Just do the charge use and recharge 2 or 3 times and the batteries will be
>> just fine.  Lithium batteries do not get to full capacity untill 2 or 3
>> charge cycles.  Both of the M8 batteries i have seem to last better than 
>> the
>> batteries for my D200, or approximately 500 exposures or more, easily 
>> longer
>> than what it takes to fill up a 2G SD card.
>> 
>> Gene
>> 
>> -------------- Original message from Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com>:
>> -------------- 
>> 
>> 
>>> Yeah - but I have never had go so dead, so fast. For once I made an
>>> unusual mistake and I read the manual. One bar is 25-50% says page 84.
>>> No bars is 5-25%. No bars flashing is 0-5%, "battery replacement or
>>> recharging necessary". 8 images should not go from 1 bar to death.
>>> Mumble mumble mumble grumble.
>>> I do have a spare - but it looks like I need more than one :-(
>>> -- 
>>> Clive 
>>> http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> on 3/24/2007 8:21 PM Don Dory said the following:
>>>> Clive, 
>>>> Lithium batteries have an extremely steep drop off curve when they are 
>>>> out
>>>> of power; as in one shot works and the next the battery is dead. So, 
>>>> when
>>>> you get to one bar, change the battery. As to the built in
>>>> capacitor/battery that has just enough juice to keep current settings
>>>> active 
>>>> until you change the battery. It was never meant to power the camera the
>>>> way reserve fuel supplies work in cars once the tank empty light comes 
>>>> on.
>>>> All the digital cameras work this way; one shot good, next shot you are
>>>> holding a hockey puck.
>>>> 
>>>> Take a deep breath, realize that this is not a mechanical camera any 
>>>> more,
>>>> and carry a spare battery. :)
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