[Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Tom 
I'm curious now, where did you find that last battery?
Gary
 
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:47:20 -0700
> From: richard at imagecraft.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks
> 
> May be just get a few rolls of Velvia :-)
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Tom Schofield <tomschofield at 
> comcast.net>wrote:
> 
> > A couple of dmr battery saving tricks are to set it to turn off the
> > display, with no after shot review, and to manually wind the shutter by
> > holding the wind lever in the stand-off position to deactivate the motor.
> > The display and motor seem to consume a lot of the battery. Basically,
> > shoot like a manual wind film camera!
> >
> > I would like to hear anyone else's battery tips, too.
> >
> > BTW, last week I found possibly the last new dmr battery in the US (at
> > $225)!!!!!!!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:49 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <
> > leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Sweet Barking Cheese. 60-70 photos? Thanks Gary, you have done much to
> > assuage the horrible bitter envy that had been building up in the pit of 
> > my
> > stomach. I shall sleep easier tonight.
> > >
> > > Gary Pinkerton sed:
> > >
> > > Takes about an hour and a half if battery is depleted, for my 
> > > batteries.
> > > Usually get 60-70 shots per battery nomally, have gotten over 90 if I'm
> > > sparing [no chimping, playing back, etc.]
> > >
> > > A
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