According to the manual the battery is capable of 310 minutes in playback mode (page 46).
After reading this I have worried a lot less about using the LCD. My rough estimate is that about 20% of my battery consumption is chimping, when I chimp. I can live with that. Tim Typo, proud chimper -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Sent: 28. mars 2007 23:54 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Battery life on K10D I do a lot of chimping and histo. Pretty much every shot, so that could account for 1/3 at least. Dave On 3/28/07, Jan van Wijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:50:15 -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > >I ran out of battery and had to install another last weekend at a wedding. > >I suppose that I did too much chimping, but under 400 shots. > >And when it was dead, it was DEAD. > > Can confirm that :-) > > I ran out of the first battery (in the body) somewhere arround 850, > then replaced it by the one that was in the grip, and that ran out > about 100 images later. > > So that gives me roughly 450 shots per battery. > > That said, this was the first charge for both, and and i do a lot > of chimping and checking histograms. And of course I also > played with the menus a bit when I just got the camera ... > > So I expect more images from the next charge :-) > > Regards, JvW > > PS: > On battery is the Pentax, the other a no-name 1500 mAh I think ... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
