On 2/25/06 1:33 PM, "Godfrey DiGiorgi", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Sony in particular uses an "Info- > Lithium" battery which is used by about a bazillion camcorders so > they're everywhere batteries are available. This battery has logic in > it to report its charge state, so the camera also has superbly > accurate status information read out in the viewfinder, something > which is impossible to achieve with standard AA cells. Come to think of it, I have to agree with you that proprietary Li-Ion is no more inconvenient than AA and they last much longer. And as long as we stay in N.America, Europe or Japan etc, this point becomes moot :-). I was repelled by the idea that users are forced to buy proprietary batteries with different form factors. If they are standardized at least to some extent, it would serve the consumers much better. If you look at Canon's BP-511 and Nikon's EN-EL3 series batteries, the form factor of both batteries are almost the same yet not interchangeable. Besides, while I was looking at D200 lately, they even use EN-EL3e which is exactly the same spec and form as their own other EN-EL3 batteries (used for D100/D70/D50 etc) yet they made a small protrusion so that anything other than EN-EL3e version won't be stuck in, for the precise reason you mentioned above. OTOH, their D70 comes with a battery holder that uses 3 CR2s in case you depleted EN-EL3 which is an excellent solution. These things got me thinking that they also want to make some money on their proprietary batteries (much like ink cartridges, although they are far easier to recycle/remfr). Hope everybody uses AA Li-ions which will only please the battery mfrs :-). Oh, well...... :-). Ken
