At 11:45 10/11/98 +0800, Jim wrote:
>
>
> I faced serious battery probles with my 4-Ti, sometimes I used new
> set of LR44 for a couple of shots and removed the batteris to store
> the camera.
>
> A couple of weeks later i used back the same set of batteries and it
> has already gone flat.
>
> Could it be due to expired battery?
> Expiry date is not indicated in the packing.
You must use *SR44* batteries with an OM4 or 4T. LR44s will die quickly, as
you discovered, because their discharge characterisitic is not flat. The
OM4 needs at least 2.86v to function correctly and alkaline and lithium
batteries son fall below this.
Cheers
Richard
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