Speaking of battery woes, I've been using the K20D since it's
considerably more reliable than my current K-5II, and my backup battery,
a Flashpoint branded version bought at a local camera store, because it
was one of the few items they carried I could use, and I kind of like to
support them.
I found that after a full charge, it lasted for about 20 frames. True
it's almost 9 years old. Maybe older, since it's been 9 years since I
purchased it new. God only knows when it was actually manufactured,
(it's pretty much the same battery used in the Konica/Minolta 7D IIRC,
and had only slightly less power than the OEM Pentax version to begin
with, for most of that time, so it's not a big deal, except I'll
probably have to get a replacement for that too.
I don't use the K20D nearly enough to justify this, but a spare battery,
for a battery dependent device, is pretty much a must have.
On 12/7/2018 6:20 PM, John wrote:
I have somehow managed to lose my spare D-LI90 batteries.
In the meanwhile, I went over to my local Pentax dealer and bought two
more. Got them home and discovered one of them was a D-LI109 which
won't fit the K-1 or the D-BC90 charger. (Note, I didn't even try to
put it on the charger)
No problem, Southeastern Camera is only 1.5 miles from my house. So I
jumped in the car and headed over to exchange the D-LI109 for a
D-LI90. Got home with the correct battery, put it on the charger & the
green LED is blinking. The other battery (on the other charger) has a
solid green.
Check the manual & it says if the LED is blinking to replace the battery.
I called Southeastern & he's got another D-LI90 in stock, but I'm not
going back there again tonight.
I think this is all a symptom of a bigger problem, I've lost my muse.
I haven't really felt like getting out with the camera for several
months now. If I'd been shooting regularly, I'd know where those other
spare batteries had got to, because I'd be using them.
Additionally, I had to buy two new SD cards for the K-1 because I had
all three cards (Slot 1, Slot 2 & spare in the battery grip) filled up
and hadn't downloaded them. Can't shoot with full cards.
I did have a spare, unopened 64GB 300x Lexar card I bought during East
Coast School in June. I tried to get matching cards, but found out
Lexar went out of business.
Finally, I looked at a used SMC Pentax-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR lens,
but looking it up on the internet, it's apparently an APS-C only lens.
I didn't notice the vignetting when I looked at the two test shops I
took while I was in the in the store, but now that I'm home and looked
again, it's pretty obvious and severe.
DRAT! He has a pretty good price on it too.
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