William Robb mused: > > I've found that not all NiMH batteries are created equal. The > batteries I bought with my istD (Kodak 2100 mAh) also suffer from an > unusually short life expectancy.
I could believe that. I generally buy items from people who regard this as a primary line of business; I'd buy film from Kodak, but not batteries. Currently I've got Rayovac rechargeables in my bag. > I believe you also have to do a few charge/discharge cycles before > the batteries are properly formed, so Simon's batteries may still > have some hope. I didn't see how this could account for a discrepancy of that magnitude. 1/2 expected life, maybe. But 1/20th (or 1/10th, assuming Pentax are being a little optimistic in their figures) is harder to explain. But let's hope, for Simon's sake, that this is the explanation. > I don't see how deleting files that are essentially garbage anyway is > a bad idea. > I don't keep crap negatives either. I'm not strict about it; I'll delete obvious screwups occasionally. But quite often I won't bother - most of the time the total garbage is a small enough proportion that the space savings aren't worth it. (Although if I've got 675Mb of images from one session I'll admit to looking for a few to delete to get the size down to the 660Mb my CD writing software seems to think is the maximum for a single CD). But generally I'll save most of the un-processed images, and then cull the list down in stages; maybe 25% make it through the first cut (weeding out near-duplicates, etc.), and so on.
