Rob Studdert mused: > > On 18 Jan 2005 at 18:12, Don Sanderson wrote: > > > The ist-D is going to live in infamy forever for it's > > battery glitches, now ain't it? ;-) > > I'm pretty pleased with its battery performance however I don't have AF > engaged > very often. My biggest problem is with the fact that it forgets the last > frame > count when the batteries go flat with the camera switched on. This problem > however could be corrected in a firmware update.
Maybe. But as it's NVRAM, you can't write it too often. I'd bet that rewriting the last frame number after every exposure is probably going to exceed the rewrite limit. If the *ist-D had battery-backed RAM you'd be OK, but that's going to need a hardware change.
