Thank's Shel. I have a set of Lithiums that I use as ultimate backup
batteries, and I'd been using them in the
D when the weather is too cold for the HiHMs. I don't know how many
exposures I've gotten out of them
but they've always read as full. The NiHMs just seem to deplete very
quickly on the Ds.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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.
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