Re: Manual cameras in general

I've been using a small fleet of Leicaflexes - Standard, SL, and SL2 - for 
several years.  8 batteries altogether.  I replaced one battery last month, 
otherwise the batteries in the cameras are the ones I installed when I first 
bought them.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Levy <yvel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jun 30, 2004 6:49 AM
To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Manual cameras in general

> I've never had problems with battery life in Canon digital SLRs even 
> in December morning cold at Bosque del Apache. (My

You know it is possible that digital bodies are NOT as battery hungry 
as film bodies -- Some years ago I had an EOS 10-S (one step down 
-then- from the top o-da-line EOS 1.)

It sucked thru Lithium faster than a schizophrenic.  I used the 
shiftable program (most of the time) and continuous autofocus and some 
times bracketed a 1q/2-stop either way.

In Minnesota it was so cold that I managed to take about six  or eight 
snaps before i had to change batteries. Of course I did not have the 
accessory belt power pack (kept under  parka)

But because there is a motor that advance the film... and no such motor 
for digital bodies, Im wonder if maybe they are a bit less demanding of 
juice????

I know that two tiny AAAs in my little non-zoom Sony seem to last for 
WEEKS of use, but of course all it is doing is a little focusing and 
some computer-decided exposures. I assume that writing to media doesn't 
take much juice either.

ML


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