I can tell you that with my E-10 and 1800mah NiMH batteries I got 325 photos
a few weekends back. A total of 572 images were taken that afternoon on two
sets of batteries. This was without using flash, no microdrive just a 256CF
and a 128SM in the camera.
I consider this to be pretty good battery life. Those getting poor
performance might be making heavy use of the internal flash, or using
batteries that do not really perform at their rated outputs. Most of my
flash shots are with the FL-40 so I do not have the drain on the camera.
Somebody asked about an external battery for the E10/E20. Olympus does have
a Lithium ION pack that is the same footprint as the camera and makes the
whole thing about 1.5 inches taller. I do not remember the capacity, but it
was pretty big.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olaf Greve" <o.greve@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:32 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] E-20 first observations
> Hi,
>
> > : - It eats batteries. I didn't have charged NiMH handy, so I used
> disposal
> > : alkalines. 30 shots, 5 with flash, ate the batteries. Off to
> > : Thomas-distrubuting to buy more NiMh.
> >
> > I'll never complain about the drain of my OM-4 again...
>
> > Is there an option for an external battery pack (Quantum?) for the
> E-10/20?
>
> Hehehe, with this amount of drain you might end up carrying a car battery
> for feeding the camera... So much for clever light weight Oly engineering
;)
>
> More seriously though: the mentioned battery usage struck me as being
> extremely high too. Does the manual make any reference as to normal
battery
> consumption? It seems to me that this is a ridiculously high amount of
> drain...
>
> Cheers!
> Olafo
>
>
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