On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:32:36PM +0200, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Am 01.04.21 um 18:44 schrieb John Francis: > > > With a predicted battery life of 800 shots (and a battery grip for 800 more) > > I don't envision running out of battery power on a day's shooting. > > As long as you're shooting in the comfort of your well-heated living > room that may be true. > > Let me tell you that in gale-force winds and at sub-zero temperatures > with a good dose of long exposures (30 sec +), autofocus action and > LiveView (some of my typical shooting situations) your 800 shots are > more like 100. > > Ralf
If it's in gale-force winds at sub-zero temperatures, I'm not going to be out there long enough to get even 100 30-second exposures, even with a second battery being kept warm in my pocket to slip into the battery grip when the first one gives out. Nor, I hazard to guess, are 99+% of the potential purchasers of the K3iii. And I don't have to be in my living room to get more than 100 shots out of a battery - almost all the shots I've taken in the nearly 50 years since I bought my first Pentax have been taken in conditions far more conducive to good battery life than those you mention. Off-hand I can only think of three or four situations when I was shooting at below zero (Fahrenheit). I any case, if I do buy myself a K3iii (plus the grip & extra battery) I'll have four batteries I can use; I believe the D90 batteries that I bought with my K5 over 10 years ago will work in the K3iii, and the old battery charger for those batteries will charge the new batteries as well. So, as I said, I wouldn't envision running out of batteries in a day of shooting with a K3iii. Heck, I'm not even sure Larry could manage that! -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
