Probably not what anyone wants to hear but I pretty much have learned to ignore the battery indicator. In several months and 3000+ frames I've seen the indicator in 2 conditions, full, and empty. Now I take them out once in a while and test them. I always have fresh ones handy and will now watch out for the 'squirrely's' and replace batteries before I panic. ;-)
Don (Anyone know how to correctly spell squirrely?) > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: *ist D problem at ISO 1600? > > > How does one know when the batteries are getting low besides having > problems with the camera? Is there a battery test or check feature? It > seems from your post that there's a battery condition indicator, yet it > also seems that the indicator doesn't do a very good job of alerting the > user to the battery state. > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Just about ready to declare the camera dead > > until it indicated low battery. > > Put in fresh Lithiums and Presto!, all the > > problems went away. > > These D's seem to get real squirrely when the > > batteries are nearing death! > > The old cells were down to 1.42 volts, apparently > > that's the magic number for 'squirrely-ness' on > > my particular D! ;-) > >
