Revue did such a camera. You can find some on Ebay. I don't think a solar panel would provide any high enough current even to charge the battery a bit when idle.
A stupid gsm (like Nokia 3310) takes hours to charge on solar panel. Imagine a dslr... 2006/9/30, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
