There's already such a camera in K mount. Ricoh made a KR-10 with a solar panel back in the 80's.
Solar power simply doesn't have enough energy density to power a modern camera from cells on the camera or the person. Now a charging station on a car or man-portable should be doable, and likely can be assembled from parts. -Adam Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Fer goodness sakes, when will camera makers start taking advantage of solar > power. Batteries are so much trouble. Just think, a small solar panel > attached to a headband or special "photo cap" (brim turned rearward by > design) and plugged into the camera body. Perfect for many shooting > situations. A premium version of the cap could be made with embedded solar > panel "chips" which would capture the sun rays from all directions. This is > something that's way overdue. > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: P. J. Alling > >> Use an AC adapter, then you'll never run out of >> battery power... >> >> Peter Fairweather wrote: >> >>> Pentax claim that the new camera >>> will work at 3 FPS until the SD card >>> (size unspecified) is full. However the >>> new rechargeable battery only >>> does 500 shots. >>> >>> With the new camera my battery will give >>> out long before the 2GB card fills up. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
