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D-Lux 5 battery question


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No one know as yet, unless someone has both cameras, as there are no extra batteries available for either camera.

 

Dale Photo & Digital has extra D-Lux 5 batteries in stock.

 

To answer the OP's questions, I was told by Leica that the D-Lux 5 will not recognize any aftermarket batteries. I'm not sure about LX-5 batteries, though.

 

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... I wonder if the less expensive battery for the LX 5 (also 3.6 V/1250 mAh) would work as well and save one a few bucks?

Someone's going to have to try it and see! ;)

 

Funny how close "saving a few bucks" is to "wasting money on a battery that doesn't work, isn't it? :rolleyes:

 

 

Thanks, JJ, for seeing this thread and keeping it alive. Like you, I'm wondering how camera-specific the requirements are. :)

 

If someone has one and sees someone else with the other, the answer is only 30 seconds away. :D

 

Since both cameras are shipping, we should be able to find out soon!

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Oh, and did I say, "Shut up, dammit!" :)

 

 

 

BTW--

Pete, in another thread, I think you used the term "counter-clockwise." I thought that was an Americanism, and you'd have said "anti-clockwise." Just curious. :confused:

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Actually someone on this forum or over at DPR has both cameras and as far as he states the batteries are interchangable.

 

I think it was on this forum because he first bought a DL5 and his wife liked so much she kinda kept it so he bought a second one. Then just for laughs he also bought the LX5.

I tried to find the post but came up short.

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(Nice try at changing the subject, Howard.;):D)...

Dammit, Pete!

 

I had actually considered putting into that post a disclaimer along the line of "At risk of being thought to be attempting to change the subject...," but thought better of it because I figured that would be too obvious. :p

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Actually someone on this forum or over at DPR has both cameras and as far as he states the batteries are interchangable....

Thanks for remembering it, Ed; and thanks, Pete, for finding the thread. I followed the link and yes, he does have both cameras and a couple spare Leica batteries, but as I read it, cdr hadn't verified that they work in both cameras. Or even that they work in one, for that matter. Hope he got that solved.

 

 

I know, Pete! "Resistance is Useless!" Shut up! :)

 

And another argument for the Leica hit me yesterday: In five years, what I paid for the camera will be of no concern. And since the Leica is so much more elegant, it is clearly the more desirable... :rolleyes:

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Thanks, Boss Angel!

 

I wondered just how brand-specific the batteries were. I have no idea how you build a camera able to tell what battery is in it. I guess you could set the camera to fetch a string of characters from the battery, but I suppose here they let the circuit check for presence of a particular feature on the battery that would be missing on cheap knock-offs.

 

I appreciate your assuaging my curiosity! :)

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