On 24/9/17, Stanley Halpin, discombobulated, unleashed: >I will respectfully disagree with this point of view Sir Cotty.
I'll consider it ;-) >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. The points I would make are these. The lady in question does use her camera, and a fair bit. She is not a technical type of person, she is an artist and musician. She bought the camera in good faith brand new from a camera shop. As such, she should correctly expect that it should work out of the box with the parts supplied - and it did. All well and good. But in my opinion the bare minimum isn't good enough! This isn't a gripe at Pentax / Ricoh - it's a gripe at all manufacturers. None seem to supply secondary methods of getting power in as standard. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- 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.
