I finally broke out my K3 and went to a local park and captured some really 
close up images of turkeys and sandhill cranes - I haven't shot much of 
anything for the last several months - I hope this breaks my lazy photo streak.


-----Original Message-----
>From: ann sanfedele <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Battery Woes
>
>Not fun!  With a snow storm headed your way you will need to do some 
>shooting .  But at least you have Baxter... so you haven't lost your mews
>
>ann
>
>On 12/7/2018 6:20 PM, John wrote:
>> I have somehow managed to lose my spare D-LI90 batteries.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, I went over to my local Pentax dealer and bought two 
>> more. Got them home and discovered one of them was a D-LI109 which 
>> won't fit the K-1 or the D-BC90 charger. (Note, I didn't even try to 
>> put it on the charger)
>>
>> No problem, Southeastern Camera is only 1.5 miles from my house. So I 
>> jumped in the car and headed over to exchange the D-LI109 for a 
>> D-LI90. Got home with the correct battery, put it on the charger & the 
>> green LED is blinking. The other battery (on the other charger) has a 
>> solid green.
>>
>> Check the manual & it says if the LED is blinking to replace the battery.
>>
>> I called Southeastern & he's got another D-LI90 in stock, but I'm not 
>> going back there again tonight.
>>
>> I think this is all a symptom of a bigger problem, I've lost my muse. 
>> I haven't really felt like getting out with the camera for several 
>> months now. If I'd been shooting regularly, I'd know where those other 
>> spare batteries had got to, because I'd be using them.
>>
>> Additionally, I had to buy two new SD cards for the K-1 because I had 
>> all three cards (Slot 1, Slot 2 & spare in the battery grip) filled up 
>> and hadn't downloaded them. Can't shoot with full cards.
>>
>> I did have a spare, unopened 64GB 300x Lexar card I bought during East 
>> Coast School in June. I tried to get matching cards, but found out 
>> Lexar went out of business.
>>
>> Finally, I looked at a used SMC Pentax-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR lens, 
>> but looking it up on the internet, it's apparently an APS-C only lens. 
>> I didn't notice the vignetting when I looked at the two test shops I 
>> took while I was in the in the store, but now that I'm home and looked 
>> again, it's pretty obvious and severe.
>>
>> DRAT! He has a pretty good price on it too.
>>
>>
>
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