My K-5 charger has a green light that turns on when the battery is charging. When it's fully charged, the light switches off.
Paul On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > I was photographing a friend's party tonight, when my K-5 stopped taking > pictures. > > When I looked at the back, I got the "battery depleted" message, so I grabbed > one of my spares. When I put it in, I got the same problem. I grabbed my > other spare, and ran into the same problem again. This was rather > distressing as I had made sure to top off at least one of the batteries > before leaving. After leaving the camera off, while one of the batteries was > in a third party charger, for a while, it started working. > > Now that I'm home, I realize that the charger was showing me the whole time > that the battery was charged (green light, it turns out it shines red when > the battery is dead). Not only that, but at least two of the batteries show > that they were fully charged when I got home. > > One thing that may be relevant, or not, is that I had been shooting a > performance, and when the card filled up, it seemed to take a *really* long > time to write everything in the buffer to the card, which left me stuck > there, not able to do *anything* while the big performance that the birthday > girl, who had hired me, and practiced for months, was going on. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
