Was out at dawn shooting with the 4T. Temp below freezing, but not by much.
First time I've had this camera out in the chill. Within a very few minutes,
there wasn't any power. Anemic single beep at battery check. Took them out,
warmed them in my hands, put them back in again. Plenty of power. Thirty
minutes later, gone again.
Could be that the batteries were weak already. They are the ones that came
in the camera. The beep was loud and sustained a day or so ago so I figured
they were good. I've put new batteries in today but haven't been back out.
Is this typical?
Second: With the Motor Drive 2 and the Ni-cad pack with the remote cord so
that you can put the battery in your pocket in cold weather . . . does this
take over all power functions of the camera, or just the motordrive?
Wouldn't seem to make much difference if the MD worked if the camera itself
was frozen up.
I really like this camera and would hate to see it perform poorly in cold
weather. My 2n went through last winter on one battery with never a whimper
and never a camera-blown exposure--and I used a lot of aperture-priority
exposures of more than a second's duration. (The only ones blown were blown
by me.)
Thanx!
--Bob W.
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