This is a section from my previous post on 'battery glitches' on the D: "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! ;-)"
1.4 is getting pretty near the end of an Alkalines useful life in a camera or a flash. FWIW I had VERY bad luck with Alkalines and now use only Lithium cells which seem to last a very long time without problems. (In the D) Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Andre Langevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Noisy *istD shutter > > > >...the batteries were in reasonably good condition... > > > >Nick > > Reasonably good may be too low for the D. I am new to it, but I've > had problems with alkalines that were still at 1.4 volts. Have you > tried fresh batteries (or fully charged Ni-Mh) to see if the problem > is still there? > > Andre >
