On 9/28/06 9:59 AM, "Tom Lesser", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can't they stick with AA NiMH rechargeables (why do we need *another* > dedicated battery?) Someone is Japan asked Pentax on this and he got a fairly detailed reply. Unfortunately, I do not remember all of it, but essentially; 1. It was "not impossible" to use AA's. 2. but it was very important to secure a very stable voltage, particularly to maintain the continuous exposure rate such as RAW 9 and JPEG infinite etc (there were other reasons but I do not remember :-). 3. Pentax's most concern was the wild performance variation among "Alkaline" batteries depending on each manufacturer, which of course is beyond their control. 4. This was a concern even on *ist series DSLR (obviously it was not as profound as it was on K10D). Now, they said their concern was on "Alkaline" which indicates that NiMH might do, but considering that the whole purpose of going for AA's was the wide availability of non-rechargeable batteries, I can understand why Pentax played safe on this. Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
