[Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Nah, that's where I bought my DMR and extra batteries a couple of months ago.
Sean said they had a new one for sale, but I passed it up for the used ones 
:)
Gary
 
> From: tomschofield at comcast.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:13:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR Battery Saving Tricks
> 
> Camera West of Walnut Creek, CA, the West Coast Leica Boutique. I asked, 
> and they said it was the last. But go ahead and ask, maybe they just want 
> to ration them out.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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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