On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote: > > I hope also that the battery will continue to be CR-V3 > (accepting rechargeables and AA).
The feature I really want to see retained is a battery grip, with a slide-out battery tray to hold the batteries. On my recent cycle-race expedition I neglected to charge up the batteries in the camera & grip (which I later realised had been in the camera for around a month), although I had taken care of the spare sets in the camera bag. Towards the end of the second day of shooting - just as the big-name cyclists were beginning to arrive at the finish of the time trial - the battery indicator switched to half-charge. I try and change batteries after that if I'm shooting anything important, so as soon as the next cyclist had gone by I turned off the camera, and changed out the batteries in the grip. This took almost no time at all - just pop open the cover, slide out the tray of old batteries, and slide in a new tray pre-loaded with fresh batteries. Then I went to turn the camera back on, and had a nasty moment when I saw that it was still on (and in fact was still writing to the CF card). I hadn't waited long enough after the last sequence of shots. Fortunately I keep batteries in the camera, as well as a set in the grip, so even with no batteries in the grip there was still power for the camera to complete writing to the CF card. But I must admit I had a nasty moment when I thought I might have just corrupted the CF card containing that day's images.
