the new ones still draw a lot of power, about twice as much as a solid state CF card during normal use. peak writing current is considerably higher and sends the camera power management scheme into low power warning on a fresh set of batteries and a burst of shots. if you leave the camera on and don't take any pictures for a minute or so, the batteries recover. turning off the camera for a while and the same thing happens. i started yesterday's photo trip with batteries that read full when turned on but would drop to half power during a write. i shot just over 200 RAW images, using flash for about 1/4 of the shots, and at the end, the camera still read full when turned on for a while without shooting. first shot or two and it would read half again for a minute or so.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 1:48 AM Subject: RE: Hardisk MTBF IDE versus SCSI > Is anybody using micro drives with there digis here, I heard the first model > draw a lot (too much)of power. > Are the newer Gigabyte versions any better and do you think they will stay > on the market > as flash cards are getting cheaper and bigger all the times and possible > read/write cycles should also increase?
