I will respectfully disagree with this point of view Sir Cotty. If someone is actually gong to USE their camera (and not just pull it out twice a year for holidays or family gatherings), then they don’t need extra kit. They need to either attend to the charge level on their battery or they need a backup battery. If they're not active users, then the extra kit is going to get lost or at least misplaced and not be of any help.
In several of the Pentax cameras I or Meg have used since the *ist-D, I have had AA adapters and/or in-camera charging capability. I have never had any use for any of that. If I were to go on primitive safari for a few weeks or to a place with no power f=grid like Puerto Rico, I might have a need for the AA adapter. But under normal circumstances, living on a power grid, the supplied charger and one or two backups is more than sufficient for even very heavy shooting. One thing I have appreciated about the K-1 and earlier models is the good battery life. In a normal day of travel, I will shoot 2-3 times the shots that Meg does, I use one LiON battery, she goes through 3 in her Leica DLUX. stan > On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:42 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24/9/17, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> She could use four standard >> alkaline batteries to just power it up to do the update if she has the >> battery carrier, or she could use disposable lithiums if she needs the >> camera while waiting for the battery, one again, if she has the carrier > > The manual helpfully points out that both the AA battery carrier *and* the AC > adapter (to power from wall outlet) are both optional extras. I think that's > pretty lame myself. She has neither. > > She's ordered a third party battery from Amazon at a fraction of the usual > outlandish price of the Ricoh OEM unit. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty -- 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.
