dant Posted February 12, 2014 Share #1 Posted February 12, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) What sort of battery life are you getting with your M240. Also give a note to your shooting style if it eats up battery power. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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zalozinski Posted February 12, 2014 Share #2 Posted February 12, 2014 So far, battery life has not been a constraint for me. I tend to go out for a walk on a Sunday morning with the camera, and so far I find that over the course of three weeks I can fill a 16GB SD card and drain a fully charged battery. That's *very roughly* 400 shots. Live View is turned off and I'm not using an EVF-2. I did turn on Live View one day, just to see what happened, and I found that the battery life is then down to one day's shooting. If I was going to an all day event, I'd probably take a second battery - Z Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 12, 2014 Share #3 Posted February 12, 2014 To be honest, I have no idea. Subjectively the battery goes on forever, and it is a surprise each time it runs down. I came into the habit of carrying spare batteries early on in my digital “career”, so I find it no hassle. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wogg Posted February 13, 2014 Share #4 Posted February 13, 2014 I've never managed to run the battery out.. probably got 400-600 into it before changing. I usually change it if "end of day's shooting" and the charge is < 50% though. I very rarely use live view. The only day's where I've had noticeable drops in battery that would make me nervous about the spare being around are when live view is used. Without LV, it's easily twice, probably more times the life of my M9. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jvansmit Posted February 13, 2014 Share #5 Posted February 13, 2014 I have to change the battery pretty much every time I go out shooting, maybe 300-400 shots but I walk for hours on end & have a very bad chimping addiction. I mostly use classic metering with an occasional flip into advanced if the light is very contrasty (or I'm feeling lazy!) but LV only rarely. Advanced metering drains the battery very quickly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannybuoy Posted February 13, 2014 Share #6 Posted February 13, 2014 No real idea of shots fired but I never really have the 'low battery paranoia' I have with just about every other electronic device I own. I shoot a mixture of LV/EVF/RF and it more than covers my shootin needs. Did a 6 hour event with the camera almost on and shooting a lot of the time. Drained 1 battery and just a bit of the 2nd. It just seems to go on and on. Apart from when the power switch accidentally turns itself on in your bag and the camera takes lots of black photos... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonki-M Posted February 13, 2014 Share #7 Posted February 13, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) on normal circumstances, it is extremely hard to drain the battery on the M240..unless quantity over quality is your motto. the only time i have EVER drained it was when i was out for a shoot from early morning til late evening with the big stopper on the camera the whole time. i took about 250 shots, all long exposures ranging from 2sec to 1 min. more than enough durable for my everyday use. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viramati Posted February 13, 2014 Share #8 Posted February 13, 2014 Have 2 batteries and even doing a wedding I only had to move onto the 2nd battery late in the evening Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest odeon Posted February 13, 2014 Share #9 Posted February 13, 2014 http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m-type-240/298182-leica-m-battery-life.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotomas Posted February 13, 2014 Share #10 Posted February 13, 2014 Until now a battery lasts about two weeks here. But I only do occasional shots not every day. I was to an evening event a few weeks before. When I started the battery shows 40 % charge. I leave the camera on with auto off set to 10 minutes. No ELV, live view or handgrip. The pictures are displayed for 5 seconds after shooting. Six hours and about 105 pictures (210 files wihle DNG + JPEG) later the battery was empty. f-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonil Posted February 13, 2014 Share #11 Posted February 13, 2014 I spent a whole day at a school's swimming carnival shooting for the school news letter - after 6 hours, I had amassed 700 photographs. The Battery said I had 20% of battery left. Win Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
george + Posted February 13, 2014 Share #12 Posted February 13, 2014 Have not run out of power yet. Last Sunday I walked in minus 10 degrees C for three hours, took 96 pictures with no live views and the battery was down to 90%. In years past the M8 needed at least one battery change for this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted February 13, 2014 Share #13 Posted February 13, 2014 My personal best with the M (Typ 240) was approx. 1,000 frames with one battery within five or six hours, mostly indoors, i. e. no low temperatures. I chimped only occasionally, to check exposure, and used live-view for just two or three dozen frames. But that's not average. When shooting normally—i. e. a couple of dozen frames a day, for a week or two or three—then the number of frame per charge will be significantly lower ... maybe 400 - 500 frames or so. And lower still when using live-view frequently. When not using live-view (i. e. most of the time) I always use classic light metering. Generally—as others said before—battery life simply is a non-issue. I carry two and hardly ever need both of them in one single day. I guess if I was using life-view or video more often then I'd carry three or four. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted February 13, 2014 Share #14 Posted February 13, 2014 I never look frankly, but I always carry a second one with me for short stints and two extras for the entire day as I use the MF grip and often EVF. EVF use depends on lens usage. I never let the M240 sleep since I am not that pleased with wakeup times. The other day I shot without EVF, took about 250 DNG shots in 5 hours and still had 65% battery capacity even while using the MF grip. Another M240 friend was along without MF grip and he had 85% battery capacity after shooting about the same as myself. Battery charge is a non-issue for me these days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulus Posted February 13, 2014 Share #15 Posted February 13, 2014 What sort of battery life are you getting with your M240. Also give a note to your shooting style if it eats up battery power. Don't know. I have to switch sd cards when the battery is still 75 % or so ( 16 Gb not full mostly about 200 frames ), so I keep losing track. Maybe I 'll write it down next times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dikaiosune01 Posted February 14, 2014 Share #16 Posted February 14, 2014 I have a M240 for every day carry. In the shops and commuting; they all provide opportunity for me to capture photographs. I rarely use live view and the EVF - 95% of the time it is just the LED viewfinder. That being said, when the camera is in my hand, it is always on. I never let it turn off. It does go to sleep, but i often half-press the shutter so the framelines and the exposure meter is always on. A battery can easily last many days to a week. Usually when the battery reaches below 50%, I will change it. If I am going for a day's event like a wedding (as a guest trying not to be - but ocassinoally - the annoying photographic uncle who gets in the way of the ceremony). One battery has always been enough; at the end of the day, the battery will be in the red zone. That being said, I've always bring a second battery just in case. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londonmember Posted February 14, 2014 Share #17 Posted February 14, 2014 I have 3 batteries for my M240 and four for my Monochrom. I swap them out when they reach 50%. Usually in a day's shooting I will use two batteries this way on the M and three on the MM. The other is there as 'insurance'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotomas Posted February 15, 2014 Share #18 Posted February 15, 2014 Came back from an event today. Took 109 pictures. Battery was full and now is down to 35%. MF grip was on. Mostly OVF and camera was left on for about 7-8 hours. Picture display 5 sec. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rscheffler Posted February 15, 2014 Share #19 Posted February 15, 2014 New to the M240, so this interests me for day-long events. So far, initial impression from a few outings for which my batteries likely haven't done the full cycle of a few charges to reach optimum capacity, but... ~200 frames out in sub-zero weather (not less than -10C) for a few hours with a fair amount of live view use, ended up at about 45%. ~350 frames during a two hour indoor event, with some live view use (probably less than 5% of total images) and only 20% of battery capacity was used. The second point above is promising to me, as ~350 frames is about what I'd get out of an M9 battery before switching it, and I'd typically go through 4-5 of them at intensive full day events. I think it's going to be very dependent on a number of factors, still to be determined by me. My experience with Canon DSLRs such as the 1DX has been that I can get a huge range of results, primarily dependent on whether or not live view was used, and how frequently images were reviewed. With that camera I've ranged from less than a couple hundred to over 8,000 images on a single charge. Other than live view, I've found that card write time has a significant influence on battery life. The more and the longer the camera has to write to the card, the more energy it consumes, and the fewer shots per charge one gets. Jpeg is more energy efficient than RAW, but since I prefer to shoot RAW, compressed should be more efficient than uncompressed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttheinz Posted February 18, 2014 Share #20 Posted February 18, 2014 I typically fill a 16GB card of compressed DNGs in a night and never shoot below iso3200. My battery ends up on 80%. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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