I just had a curious thing happen with my battery grip. My 5n has been on a break for a couple of weeks, after shooting about 3 or 4 rolls. On a couple of occasions, I've forgotten to switch it off as well, sometimes for just an hour or two, once overnight. Anyway, I was quite disappointed to see the battery indicator flashing so soon, so I removed the 4 Energizer e2 alkaline batteries (battery of choice, usually long lasting, and Big W has packets of 8 going for around AUD11, maybe USD7.50).
Quite amused by those inbuilt battery life testers, I picked up each (presumably dead) battery and pressed the designated points as hard as I could to see if I could get a green mark to light up, and the strangest thing- the first battery was dead flat, while the other 3 were full or very close to it! They were all from the same batch, straight from a new packet into the camera. Would anyone have an idea of how this could be possible? I thought they were all in a serial circuit.. Other things I'm considering- for a while I actually removed the grip from the camera just for storage reasons (leaving the batteries in), could that have contributed anything? Also, I used the 360fgz for a few rolls (not sure how much this would factor in, since it does use 4 batteries of its own). Curiouser and curiouser! Any thoughts? Ryan
