In my car or on my motorcycle, I use the trip odometer as my "gas gauge". I hardly ever look at the fuel level. Why look at the gauge?
In the DS, i just keep taking pictures until it stops with Lithium disposables, or I fill five 1G cards and then change out the batteries if I'm using NiMH. Unless I know I have to do some work that I don't want interrupted and then I install a fresh set and fire away. Always have at least one spare, fresh set in the bag ... ! Godfrey On Jul 10, 2006, at 9:53 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Well I finally got tired of the fact that my *ist-D gets more battery > usage from a set of rechargeables than my Ds and did a little test. > > It seems that the DS will take quite a few more photos when the > battery > indicator reads empty, two or three hundred more in fact. The D is > just > about ready to give out when the battery indicator reads empty. The D > will take batterys that the Ds thinks are empty, (and won't even > get the > display on the DS to start), and show them as half full. > > Now we all know that the battery check on these cameras is just a > rough > estimation of how much power remains, but this looks like a huge > difference. Using my handy, dandy, Tandy®, digital multimeter I have > been able to determine that at a measured voltage around 1.24-1.27 > volts the Ds starts showing the batteries as being empty, yet it will > continue to operate for quite some time. The D sees these as being > half > full. I don't know if this is sample variation or some psychological > gambit, (for example, GM automobile gas gauges read empty when there's > still 3-4 gallons in the tank, just so people won't run out of gas), I > don't know about anyone else but I find this to be interesting. > > Disclaimer: Hardly a scientific test, but I didn't have to build any > special equipment and I wasn't doing anything else important anyway. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
