From: John Francis
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:03:01PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote:
I have to run the battery in the grip down until the battery level
indicator shows a blinking low battery symbol, then turn the camera
off. When I turn the camera back on the battery level indicator will
show the
Hi Bob, I am with you on the K-5 idiosyncrasies and read about this
particular silly battery problem. I also read on the net not to wait
for a complete discharge of the battery, but to recharge them when the
camera shows half to quarter charge. Li-ion cells do not have the
dreaded memory effect.
I don't believe I've ever encountered this problem with my K-5, which operates
only on Pentax batteries -- two at a time, because I always use the grip, and I
charge the batteries more often than needed. I did experience occasional
shutdowns with my K20D, in which I used a variety of third
I've mentioned before that the Nikon D1 has/had this problem with
batteries showing half or quarter charge and getting blanks pictures.
I have not used it in a while, and i now have third party batteries
for the D1 and D1H, but also for my K10d and never noticed this on the
K10D.
Dave
On Fri,
Bipin,
The 6 AA batteries I used in my grip were not rechargables.
They were good quality, single use NICa's(?), but not lithiums.
The reason I picked up the two spare was to change from AA's
to another camera battery in the grip.
The grip came with two different battery carriers.
Regards, Bob S.
From: Paul Stenquist
I don't believe I've ever encountered this problem with my K-5, which
operates only on Pentax batteries -- two at a time, because I always
use the grip, and I charge the batteries more often than needed. I
did experience occasional shutdowns with my K20D, in which I used a
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:03:01PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Paul Stenquist
I have noticed on both the K10D K20D with battery grips that when
the camera is set to use the battery in the grip first, it does not
automatically switch over to the battery in the camera when the
battery
On 11/16/2011 11:58 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
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It also happenedd to me a few times
Larry Colen wrote:
Speaking of batteries, since I'm no longer shooting the K-x every day, I'm
not charging the hybrids nearly as often, and I'm finding when I pull them
out of my bag that most of them are reading dead when I put them in the
K-x. This is after years of them working
On 11/17/2011 12:29 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
Larry Colen wrote:
Speaking of batteries, since I'm no longer shooting the K-x every day,
I'm not charging the hybrids nearly as often, and I'm finding when I
pull them out of my bag that most of them are reading dead when I put
them in the K-x.
Hello Folks, I have been using high quality 3rd Party Batteries from
Amazon com and Sandisk Extreme cards with my K-5 and have not had any
of the problems reported here. In fact the 3rd Party Batteries work
just as well as the original Pentax at 1/4 to 1/3rd of the price.
I do clean the battery
On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:29, Dario Bonazza wrote:
This is why I switched to Eneloops for my *istD back then, and now just for
the AF-540 FGZ flash, which I use less and less.
Whatever happened to YOU FOOLS, THOSE ENELOOPS CAN'T BE WORKING BETTER THAN
OTHER BATTERIES DESPITE WHAT YOU ARE ALL
Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote:
Whatever happened to YOU FOOLS, THOSE ENELOOPS CAN'T BE WORKING BETTER THAN
OTHER BATTERIES DESPITE WHAT YOU ARE ALL EXPERIENCING TO THE CONTRARY!!?
Nice try, but not enough exclamation marks.
Or is my mail filter still doing its job?
I have no way of
Bipin,
I've got some 3rd party batteries in use with my K-5.
I just bought 2 spares and still have an older one (K-7 spare?).
Battery power seems to be the first place to check for problems on the K-5.
This is tricky because the battery can look OK - but not really...
Turning the camera off and
:
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Subject: Re: Stupid K-5 trick
On 11/16/2011 11:58 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
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Turning the camera off and back on is a trick that I use on my K100DS.
Often times, it is enough to change the indicator from empty to half
full.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote:
Bipin,
I've got some 3rd party batteries in use with my K-5.
I just
At the PDML Marin gathering, on two occasions my K-5 locked up, with the mirror
up. Turning the power off, and back on, fixed the problem. Someone suggested
that it might have been low batteries, so I shrugged it off.
Tonight, when I was shooting belt tests at the dojo, with a fresh battery
On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
At the PDML Marin gathering, on two occasions my K-5 locked up, with the
mirror up. Turning the power off, and back on, fixed the problem. Someone
suggested that it might have been low batteries, so I shrugged it off.
Tonight, when I was
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Subject: Re: Stupid K-5 trick
It also happenedd to me a few times. Always with a non-genuine battery
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