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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