At 10:46 AM 8/9/01 +0300, Alan wrote:
> Reading about MZ-S having roughly the same consumption as MZ-5n
> with CR2 batteries, I'd say don't expect more than 30 rolls with
> AAs, be it lithiums. The battery life figures advanced by Pentax in
> the brochures really don't have anything to do with reality - it's
> perhaps their single outrageous official lie. On the other side,
> Pentax is in line with all others regarding power consumption - no
> dramatic differences.
One nice thing about the data imprinting is that you don;t have to guess
about how many rolls you went through on a set of batteries.
I get fantastic battery life out of my Pz-1p, changing only 3 or 4 times a
year. But I use almost all manual focus lenses and external flash unit. I
guess the AF really eats up the batteries.
- MCC
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