From: "Rod Connan" > I would suggest the setup and work flow I use. > > I carry a battery in the camera (The Pentax original) and a battery in the > battery grip. > > I set 'Select battery' in Set-up menu 3/3 to 'Grip First'. > > In usage this means that the body battery is ignored and the grip battery > supplies the system. > > One would have hoped that there would have been an automatic changeover to > the body battery when the grip battery is exhausted - sadly, this is not so! > > But - you can quickly resume shooting on the Body battery by simply turning > the camera OFF and then immediately ON. This takes only a moment. Then you > can change the Grip battery at a convenient moment. When you do this, the > body battery shuts down and the grip battery again becomes the primary > source. > > The beauty of this setup is that you never have an unexpected delay longer > than the time it takes to flick the camera switch to OFF then back to ON > after waking up to why your camera just stopped <GRIN> > > I usually top up the Body battery when I think of it and when I expect to be > using more than one fully charged battery as I invariably recharge the Grip > battery after taking any images during a day so the body battery is pretty > rarely used. > > Hope this is of interest - Rod
It is of GREAT interest. It would have been even more help, if I'd known it at the time. I did have it set to "Grip First" in the menu. Don't remember if I got that idea here or from one of the magazine reviews I read. What I expected was it would show "half" in the window after the first battery ran down, and would switch to the other battery. That makes sense doesn't it? So, evidently I had one charged battery and one depleted battery and could have continued shooting if I'd only known. Except that, thinking back, I turned it off and back on and was only able to get one more shot before it shut down again. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
