I carry about 12 spare Leica batteries for a day's worth of shooting ;-)
The Hong Kong ones don't seem to get quite as many shots but I only have 4
original Leica ones. I do get much more from the battery when I leave the
LCD off.
Tina
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The other day I complained about getting only 90-100 shots on a freshly
> charged Oly battery on my E-M5. Today I was using a clone battery which
> advertised 17% less capacity but delivered only 70 shots. This is
> getting worrying. Do I need to carry 3 or 4 spares for a day's worth of
> shooting?
I also learned that I must not set the battery level warning down to as
> low as -2. I did it because I thought the battery warning was appearing
> far to early. But, at -2 (lowest level), I didn't get any warning that
> I saw. Perhaps a few minutes when I wasn't using the camera it was
> flashing some sort of warning but it couldn't have been much longer than
> that.
>
> Yesterday, after installing the fresh clone battery I took 20 shots over
> a period of about 1 hour with the camera frequently powered off between
> groups of shots. Today I added another 50 shots over another period of
> about 1 hour but with the camera left on most of the time. Battery
> stone dead.
>
> Maybe I need to leave that big LCD disabled all the time and only use
> the EVF. Is that possible?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 2/3/2013 10:37 AM, David Young wrote:
> > Paul Braun asked:
> >
> >> How did the battery perform in the cold?
> >
> > Poorly, I thought. I was there for about 2 hours, took 90+ shots, and
> went
> > through two batteries. Temperature was about -5C (23 in the USA) or so.
> The
> > first was the original Oly battery, the second was an off-brand battery.
> Both
> > worked equally poorly, in the cold.
> >
> > With the E3, I usually get 350-500 shots, at -20C, on a single battery,
> same
> > race, same lake.
> >
> > David.
> >
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