I agree, I shot 1929 images on a single Pentax fully charged battery in the grip on one K5 last night but that's using back button focus, no image post view, no flash and no video and minimal chimping. I gave up putting an additional battery in the body when using the grip as I've had too many battery related lockups.
On 14 December 2013 07:29, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2013, at 13:22 , CollinB <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote: > >>> I am very tempted to get a 2nd K-3 and, but am not convinced that I want >> the grip - I already have one for my first K-3. And I am not interested in >> the DA50/1.8. >> >> Two weeks ago I shot a party with the K5. >> Had I only used the internal battery and swapped as needed I would have had >> to swap at least once. Maybe twice for a sense of security. > > Wow! > > When I shoot rock concerts, I shoot upwards of 1,000 images on the K5 (and > earlier the K7) and the only time I've ever had to swap batteries mid-stream > is if I've been foolish enough to start out with a not-already-fully-charged > battery. > > Are you using the built-in flash, or something else that would chew up your > battery quicker than usual? > > Or are you shooting 2K-3K of images? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
