Hi Peter .... I got slightly over 700 exposures with plain vanilla Lithiums (energizers) and the CR3V's that came with the DS. That included a fair amount of chimping while learning the camera and, for all intents and purposes, no use of the flash, and using auto focus lenses about 1/3 of the time. Just about every exposure was made with the RAW setting (if that means anything).
Shel > P. J. Alling wrote: > > I've been using the *ist-Ds while my D needs repair and it seems to > me that the Ds sucks down batteries much faster the the D ever > did. Anyone else have any comparable experience. As an example, I > could put a set of 2500 mah NiHMs into my D and go for a week of > light use or several hundred exposures before having to worry about > running out of power. With the Ds I'm lucky to go a day, and > couple of hundred, more likely less than a hundred exposures before > switching batteries. The batteries are about a year old, but they > are the same ones I was using in the D which was still working well > with them before I stopped using it. Just curious about anyone > else's experience.
