The battery indicator only shows full, half full or empty. Not very useful. I usually chang battteries whenever it does not show full. Other than that I've heard, that the indicator is unreliable if there's a battery grip attached, pehaps especially for certain batttery types (NiMh ?).
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 8. januar 2005 17:34 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: *ist D problem at ISO 1600? It has a battery health indicator. I've never found them to be particularly reliable in most devices. I'm just going to have to see how it works in the *ist-D. Shel Belinkoff wrote: >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! ;-) >> >> > > > > > -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
