I was very happy that my ME takes pictures without battery.. I was on my
way to a roundtrip through norway when I realized that the meter doesn't
work. It was at a train station and my train was leaving 10 minutes
later. There was a camera store in the station and I rushed in and
bought a new battery.. the person inside seemed to know what he was
doing... Later in the train I realised that the meter still wasn't
working. I thought that there was something broken. 3 weeks and a lot of
rolls later I went to my camera store at home and the man there
dicovered that I had bought an empty battery... but a lot of my pictures
turned out ok and I was happy that I didn't had to buy a new camera...
and I was really happy that I didn't had a "modern" camera with me ^_^
bye Katrin
> At 02:53 PM 1/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >We went through this "battery-dependence is bad" debate thirty years ago
> >with motorcycles, when electric starters first became popular. People
> >wanted the kickstarters retained, but eventually trusted the electric
> >starters, and grew accustomed to the convenience (especially if you stalled
> >the engine at a green light).
> >
> >For those with a survivalist mindset, anything battery-dependent might not
> >work in a post-apocalyptic society, but for the rest of us, AA batteries are
> >usually pretty easy to find.
