----- Original Message ----- From: "Amita Guha"
Subject: batteries discharging quickly in *istD
About a month ago, I tried to use my *istD, but the batteries were dead. The other two sets of Nimh's I keep for it were dead as well. I wasn't too concerned because I hadn't used the camera in a while. A couple of days ago, I charged up all three sets, and today I headed out to shoot. My first set lasted about 6 minutes/11 exposures, the 2nd set lasted about the same, and the 3rd were dead when I put them in the camera, even though they'd been fully charged. When we got home, we found out that at least two batteries were bad. The rest seemed to charge up normally pretty quickly in the one-hour charger. Now I am trying to figure out if the problem is with the camera or the batteries. We bought all the batteries at about the same time, a year and a half ago. Is the *istD known to develop problems reading batteries? Nate thinks we might need to change the little battery for the *istD's computer. I am hoping it is just a simple matter of the Nimhs going bad all at once.
I gave up on MiMH batteries some time ago. They are great when new, but get really flakey after not very long. I had 3 sets (24 batteries), and had similar problems with them going screwey. I switched to lithioids a year or more back, and have never had a wonky battery issue since.
William Robb
