Does the Battery ever discharge :)

[jhawk1000]

I know Swampy has marveled at the wonders of the D70 battery but I have been shooting now for several weeks, not a lot, but a lot of chimping, and it still reads full even when I left the camera on for a couple of days. Totally amazing. I bought another backup and it more of less just sits.

Mel

[sandman]

Same as me Mel, i bought a second battery with the D70 a month ago, charged them both when i got home , i've shot 700 + frames now in 4 weeks have'nt re-charged yet .
But i have'nt used the flash or the LCD for reviewing much.

Brian

[Swampy]

So, as I said in a previous post, I got a little over 500 shots with my first battery. That was with a lot of LCD reviewing (remember the back seat in CO Mel? LOL) as well as messing around with CSM settings and what not quite a bit.

I switched batteries finally. I figured I'd get more out of the second one as I'm not fooling around with stuff. Sure enough, I got 700 shots from it. Still with a lot of playing around on the LCD, people picking it up and ooh ahhing and even doing a bunch of on-board flash stuff. In fact, that was doing about 200 on-board flash shots from those 700. I'll have to see what my third charge does (second one on the first battery. ;) ). Man. Pick up the pace guys. I've had mine for 2 weeks as of last night and have 1200 shots through it.

[sandman]

it's the quality not quantity. :rofl:

Brian

[Swampy]

Maybe not the quality you're looking for, but I did have a work project that required quite a few photos of our 50,000 square foot Datacenter.

Here, 1/3 of this row of servers is a little bit of our storage space coming in at around 475,488Gb of storage space. And the second one is of one of the larger network "switches" that one of the rows of servers is on.

480 network ports and 24 fiber ports with room to grow in that row even. There's another rack just to the right with the same stuff in it as well. That's where I've been spending a lot of my 700 shots on my second battery, not to mention the poor lens/focus speed/color/other D70 tests I've been posting. :troutsmac

[frankgh]

That would be 475TB? Looks of photo backup space! :)

[critter]

I force myself to change the battery in the D70 about every 3 weeks whether it needs it or not. Now I got to figure out how to get some crap out of the viewfinder from my trip..looks like it could be some grains of sand or something.

Tony

[Swampy]

That would be 475TB? Looks of photo backup space! :)
Something like that. That was just for that 1/3 row of storage though. Not all of the rows are storage either. We've got all kinds of stuff. Telecom is in a seperate room all together as well as our firewalls/routers/anti-virus/etc.

Did you ask for backup? Here's one of the backup units here. It's about 5 feet wide I think. Has room for 1,344 Tapes and a capacity of 268TB. We've also got a bunch of other dual frame units that handle about 150TB a piece.

[apsphotography]

Hi guys,

I have not used the D70, but if it has the EN-EL3 battery, it is the same one which is in the D100.

i have owned the D100 for over two years, and with the MB-100 grip and two batteries loaded in it, i have shot sometimes 4 weddings without a recharge and only then charged it to be on the safe side.

Those Batteries just go on and on and on.

steve

[jknights]

Bryan,

Nice kit in the data center.

Got a spare backup unit I could do with a decent backup unit with my 1TB of disk space. My old SCSI units with 40GB tapes are pathetic !!!
:D

[sandman]

Steve the D70 does use the EN-EL3, any time you want to try it , phone me , leave a credit card num as deposit and it's yours for the day . :lol:

Brian

i mean the D70 not the battery.