At 06:13 PM 8/9/01 +1200, you wrote:
>I had a scary moment with mine as well.
>I bought the grip with the body so never used anything else but alkalines,
>but when the first set failed I put what I thought was a fresh set and they
>also failed after a brief period, like one minute.
>Once again I replaced those with yet another set and the same thing
>happened.
>By this time I was suspecting my battery grip was faulty, but decided to go
>into
>town and try a set of Lithiums.
>Damn thing fired up straight away and I've had no further trouble.
>Put through about a dozen rolls so far with them so far so good.
Was the battery type switch on the grip set for lithiums all along?
>What I don't like is not being able to use it with my AF500FTZ and
>dial in the flash compensation.
>That's the one major gripe I have, and have no idea what I'm going to do
>when
>my next wedding comes around.
>Pentax...what were you thinking!!
I agree on this, though Pentax was probably thinking "Buy the AF360FTZ..."
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