On Fri., Apr. 2, 2021, 7:09 p.m. John Francis, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! > I suspect the idea is that the camera gets plugged in at night and is supposedly fresh for another day. If you need more than that, buy a battery and charger. bill > -- %(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.
