I almost always use the lithium CRV3's because they last good and long.
However, I'm overjoyed that in an emergency I can pop 4 AA's in...
Tom C.
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DS Battery Indicator
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:50:55 -0700
On Sep 29, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
And some of us do have a well founded preference for off-the-shelf
general
garden variety power sources. YMMV but please don't simply disparage the
use of
regular old AAs as for some of us there's a lot of advantage to be had
when all
our kit uses the same batteries.
Certainly is an advantage... however the times when I use anything battery
powered but the camera itself are relatively rare. :-)
I remember some folks on the Leica list whining that the SF20 flash unit
took these "godawful non-rechargable lithium cells and what an expensive
pain that was" instead of good old AAs. Well, I bought an SF20 flash unit
because it was reasonably priced and a good match for my Leica M6TTL. I
used it for a year and a half, and when I sold it the same batteries for
the new owner lasted another year or so. Lithiums are smaller, lighter and
pack more capacity.
If you use a lot of flash and other devices that use AA form factor
batteries, yeah, that's a good reason to stick with them. And I don't
think what Pentax has done with the D/DS/DL/DS2 and standard batteries is
at all bad. But overall, if I had a choice between a battery designed and
tailored to give the maximum performance vs a standardized battery, I'd
probably pick the former.
Godfrey
