Some years ago I bought one secondhand for my wife, to replace her ME Super and adding the focus confirmation bonus (so much valued by her due to eyesight problems). It ended up with my wife asking me to get back her ME Super because she couldn't afford to change batteries almost each time she had to shoot, with the risk of not having them handy when necessary.
At that time I suspected a faulty camera, but then I was reported the same problem by other ME-F owners. I don't have an answer for that, I can just see two possibilities: 1 - It's a common fault of the ME-F. Many ME-F can break that way, but probably not all of them. 2 - It's the ME-F way of being. In that case, maybe the AF circuitry is too much power consuming for the type of batteries employed, even just for focus confirmation, since AF power was supplied by dedicated in-lens batteries. We can make a poll here. Anybody has been using the ME-F for some time? How much a battery set usually lasted? Bye, Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: Re: ME-F vs ME Super > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Dario Bonazza 2 wrote: > > > The problem is that the ME-F eats batteries like peanuts. > > Even without using the AF? Any ideas why? > > Thanks, > > Kostas >
