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Subject: [Leica] DMR Battery Information
From: jnelon at netvigator.com (James R. Nelon)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:01:51 -0400
References: <002d01cb6caa$00fd6e00$02f84a00$@netvigator.com> <C8DE6B2D.512A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

When I say I don't chimp, I mean that I don't have any time to look at the
images just taken when eight horses and riders are thundering by. I have
already set the shutter speed that I want and the ISO at 400 and am shooting
as fast as the R8/DMR allows. The exposure system is so accurate that I
seldomly find the images off, even after the fact, so I don't look or worry
about that, especially since I'm shooting RAW. The major problem that I find
wrong after the fact is that the image was out of focus. But still no
chimping until the images reach LR3, if that can still be called chimping.

I will post some images from the October 3 Myopia Polo match when I can get
the time. Other images from a September Myopia Polo match (109 of them) are
already up at:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jnelon/

Jim Nelon

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jnelon=netvigator.com at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jnelon=netvigator.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Mark
Rabiner
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:34 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR Battery Information

I think it might be different to tell with 4 batteries to keep track of
which ones are working real well and which ones are doing better than
others.

You don't chimp means you don't check your shots as you are shooting them?

Any pix to see?

--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: "James R. Nelon" <jnelon at netvigator.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:46:10 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Cc: <MichaelBass at GMail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] DMR Battery Information
> 
> I want to share some information with the LUG about DMR batteries. 
> I've got four DMR batteries, two of which are showing signs of 
> fatigue. I had an interesting conversation with Michael Bass about 
> rebuilding the batteries with fresh cells. One of the DMR batteries 
> reads half full after a full fresh charge. Using that battery, I 
> squeezed off over four hundred (nearly) continuous shots before the 
> battery expired. Yet in the field the battery dies within an hour or 
> so of shooting polo a couple of Sunday's ago. And I don't chimp. That 
> tells me that the main battery drain using an R8/DMR combination is 
> not so much the shutter power requirements as it is the "just being 
> on" requirements. I'm going to send the battery to Michael to have him 
> replace the cells. But I'd like any other insights anyone has as to 
> why the freshly charged battery shows a half charge, yet it can provide
over 400 quick shots yet die in the field in less than an hour.
> 
>  
> 
> Jim Nelon
> 
> 
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