I use batteries in the D grip all of the time. LIthium AAs in the grip
and camera. I get approximately 2000 exposures. Always. Tried NIMh for
a while. Gave up on them. I think they require considerable discipline
in regard to charging and care. I don't have time for that.
Paul
On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:31 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Were you using the batteries in the battery grip by any chance? I've
now given up using batteries in the grip as I suspect there's a
contact problem somewhere along the line that leads to erratic battery
performance.
Alternatively, do you trust your charger? I've had trouble there in
the past as well. Ideally a charger should charge each cell
independently and offer a discharge option.
Cheers,
David
Amita Guha wrote:
About a month ago, I tried to use my *istD, but the batteries were
dead. The other two sets of Nimh's I keep for it were dead as well. I
wasn't too concerned because I hadn't used the camera in a while. A
couple of days ago, I charged up all three sets, and today I headed
out to shoot. My first set lasted about 6 minutes/11 exposures, the
2nd set lasted about the same, and the 3rd were dead when I put them
in the camera, even though they'd been fully charged. When we got
home, we found out that at least two batteries were bad. The rest
seemed to charge up normally pretty quickly in the one-hour charger.
Now I am trying to figure out if the problem is with the camera or the
batteries. We bought all the batteries at about the same time, a year
and a half ago. Is the *istD known to develop problems reading
batteries? Nate thinks we might need to change the little battery for
the *istD's computer. I am hoping it is just a simple matter of the
Nimhs going bad all at once.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Amita
