The chemistry of old single-use batteries and modern rechargeable batteries is very different. You could, if you wanted to, cut an old battery in half without much happening. That's not true of something like a lithium ion cell (as can easily be seen on youtube), so those tend to be enclosed in a reasonably strong airtight and watertight casing. Old cells were not, so if the battery began to degrade you could end up with some fairly nasty chemicals forcing their way out of the battery and ending up all over the inside of whatever you were using the battery in.
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:46:19PM -0400, Mark C wrote: > I wondered about that. My Q would lose stored setting in a day or two > without a battery in it, so I left it in. > > On 6/5/2017 12:25 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > > The thing is this issue isn't so much a problem with the battery, but > > with storing the camera with the battery in it. Back in the day of film > > cameras we were told never to store the camera with the batteries in > > it. Why would that advice not pertain to modern digital devices and > > rechargeable batteries? > > > -- > 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.
