John Navas wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:12:16 -0600, Ron Hunter
wrote in :

SMS wrote:

The camera with Li-Ion batteries would have been far, far less likely to
have shown symptoms of low battery, real or imagined. That's the real
bottom line.
You may not have noticed, but ALL batteries run down at some point, and
lithium ion batteries are much like NiMH in that they have a pretty
sudden drop off of the power curve. It is always nice to have option.

True, but many Li-ion batteries are now "smart", with the ability to
tell you pretty accurately how much charge is left.

I have that on the new camera. Shot it down to 0 yesterday in the
studio with the batt indicator decrementing by 1% at a time, then the
'dead batt' symbol came on. Shot about 5 more frames and into the
charger it went. Nice to have a feel for how fast it's draining.

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