On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:06:14AM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > 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.
Yep - that's how the D-BC90 works. But Larry did mention he was using a third-party charger, so it might have different behaviour. > > 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. -- 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.
