----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Rice" Subject: Lithium-ion batteries for istDs?
> Hey William, > > That's really interesting that you say that your istD was prone to battery > induced glitches, because I was observing behavior this weekend I'd never > seen before. > > I'd put fairly (but not completely) freshly recharged batteries into the > camera, and it would light up with the display indicating a completely > depleted battery. I'd take one image, and the display would change to a > partially depleted battery. Another image, and the display indicated a > perfectly charged battery. This behavior concerns me. > Don't let it concern you. It's quite normal for the camera. Glitches can include everything from what you described to really weird things like AF not working properly, banding (I believe), my alltime fav is the vertical grip not working. The istD was probably pushed onto the market very quickly, and had some manufactured in problems relating to battery output. It always seemed related to NiMH batteries though. As soon as I switched to lithiums, I never had another battery induced failure, other than total failure from the batteries dying. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
