Godfrey wrote: The likelihood of failure is quite low anyway, but any sensible photographer who needs his equipment to always be ready should have two bodies anyway.
Never a truer word spoken. Here's what happened to me: Covering a new restaurant opening, and after about 30 shots started getting "battery depleted" error messages. Turning power on and off powered it up again, but only for a few more shots until it got progressively worse and failed completely. I had been using disposable CR V3's in both grip, and body, but after exhausting them, refreshed with new AA lithiums. They should have been just as good as the CRV3's, and I was horrified to see the message in the LCD. Swapped them for some rechargeables I had as back up, and the same thing happened. I never had a back up camera, and lost my fee for that job. Camera is in the repair agency as we speak, and the last report was the technicians have no idea what's wrong with it. I've bought a new DL, and the budget zoom 18-55 as a back up. So hard lesson learnt...if you're doing paid assignments, don't leave home without one! Max.
