On 31/05/07, Barry Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey Folks > > My wife photographs with an istDs (which used to be mine), while I use a > K10D. I'm having some battery problems with her camera (sometimes the NiMH > rechargeables seem to hold only enough charge for about 50 shots, especially > if the batteries haven't been used for a while). > > I think that maybe I have to exercise the NiMH rechargeable batteries more > completely occasionally, since I tend to recharge at the end of each day > when I'm using them even if they're just partially depleted. Online battery > FAQs suggest that NiMH don't have much of a memory effect, though. > > Any advice? And I've been wondering---can I can get rechargeable Li-ion > batteries for istDs?
Just buy yourself a set of Sanyo Eneloop NiMH batteries, they have a higher terminal voltage per discharge and they self discharge at a far slower rate than regular NiMH cells. Truly it will be problem solved. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
