I agree with your need to keep the camera on, but I think you are killing your batteries. If weight isn't an issue, apply some technology to the problem. Rig up a harness and wire a set of batteries in parallel to keep the load down on each. It will really help the lifetime of them. With my 300D and an IS lens I still get 400-500 shots out of a battery. You may be happy with only 50 shots, but I think you could easily be much happier and without the high load on your batteries.
If weight really isn't an issue, go with gel cells in series and a regulator. We used to use a similiar trick on our ELPers (an interferometer for locating crashed airplanes) using a pair of 9V batteries and a voltage regulator IC to push the 18V back down to 3V. A 9V battery has to be seriously dead before its voltage falls below 1.5V, so those battery packs were practically immortal no matter what conditions we used them in (planes have a terrible habit of crashing in deep snow in the dead of winter and never on warm sunny days). On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:38:05AM +0900, James B.Davis wrote: >Fact is, shooting birds or any wildlife, you have to have the camera >ready. If I'm in a location and ready to shoot, my camera is on and >ready. If I'm ready to move on, and the camera goes back into the bag, >it is turned off. I used to have the camera set for auto off to >always on and used the switch. But lately I've found the auto off does >have it's uses for those times when you're shooting something and you >can turn it on and get ready. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); /* http://www.nmt.edu/~schlake/ */ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
