Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, K.Takeshita wrote: > > >>Now, they said their concern was on "Alkaline" which indicates that NiMH >>might do, but considering that the whole purpose of going for AA's was the >>wide availability of non-rechargeable batteries, I can understand why Pentax >>played safe on this. > > > The existence of Lithium AAs blows away their theory. Cheap, light, > durable, easy-care (actually non-care), with half a decade of > shelf-life. The fact that I can swap the flash batteries with grip > bateries and keep on shooting is what counts for me. And not a bloody > charger in sight. > > Kostas >
But Lithium AA availability is restricted. Alkalines are available just about anywhere. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

