I use Acme Power NP-400 (labeled "7.4V 1500mAh For Minolta") They ran out of charge in about 500-600 shots, while original can produce up to 900. But the price was about 13$ :)
P.S. Hello to all. It's my first letter to PDML :) 2009/6/16 Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com>: > Dave, > I've got 2 spares,used in the K10D and then the K20D. One was > purchased locally at the computer store (a minolta 400 variant?) and > the other thru ebay. They seem not to last as long as my Pentax > battery - maybe 50-70% as long. But the price was way less, probably > 1/3rd. I'll get spares for the K-7 as well. Filling a 16 Meg sd card > might run you out of juice! > Neither of them has died, but I am having trouble with the D-L18's I > used in the Optio 4 and SV (postage stamp sized). Both the originals > and the 3 replacements I purchased for cheap seem to be dying. (I'm > using the SV for ebay photos.) > Regards, Bob S. > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:29 AM, David J Brooks<pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My cheap version of the K10D battery i bought from interbattery dot >> com has died. I bought it about a year ago and never really got a lot >> of shots from it, about 1/2 what the Pentax battery would give. >> >> Any one seeing the same?? I like to have at least 1 spare for any >> Dslr, so now i need to decide if i spent a little and take my chances >> again, or a lot, and get the Pentax one. >> >> FWIW, the cheap one is around $15 US plus shipping, customs and taxes, >> for around $45-50 Canadian, or the pentax one is $90 Canadian, at >> henrys. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
