Jim Whitham Posted October 17, 2007 Share #1 Posted October 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I took my M8 out into the Welsh mountains twice recently and both time the batery died within one hour and only a handful of shots. First time the camera was hanging off my neck but against my body as I walked uphil and condensation formed on the camera back, then it died. Second time after taking some shots I put it in my rucsac and when I took it out, it was dead. Different battery each time and fully charged up beforehand. I was travelling light and only out for a couple of hours so took no spare batery, and this was simply recreational, but it cold all have been disastrous! Any suggestions please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shootist Posted October 17, 2007 Share #2 Posted October 17, 2007 This sound more like the camera never went in to standby mode. This can happen when any of the function buttons on the back get pressed. I have put rubber bumpers around those button because everytime I carry the camera at my side/front and then take it up to my eye something is always being displayed on the LCD, the main menu or the Set menu. And in the case if it being in a bag you never turned it off and the shutter release was being depressed by something in the bag making the meter and whole camera active. Both of those things will drain the battery pretty quick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted October 17, 2007 Share #3 Posted October 17, 2007 I have put rubber bumpers around those button ROFL! Cases to muffle the sound, shoe-mounted thumb-rests to simulate a wind-on lever, recoverings to replace a too-slippery OEM, now rubber bumpers to prevent accidental button-presses...I wait with bainted breath for the next home-brew "solution" to a perceived shortcoming of this $5600 camera Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Whitham Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share #4 Posted October 19, 2007 The second time the camera was switched off!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted October 19, 2007 Share #5 Posted October 19, 2007 Sadly, switching the camera off doesn't actually disconnect the power, it only requests it to go into a deep sleep where the power consumption is minimised. If, like a recalcitrant child, it refuses to do so, your battery will continue to drain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted October 19, 2007 Share #6 Posted October 19, 2007 Sadly, switching the camera off doesn't actually disconnect the power, it only requests it to go into a deep sleep where the power consumption is minimised. If, like a recalcitrant child, it refuses to do so, your battery will continue to drain. Mark, I don't want to know any more!. So, If I remove the battery between shooting, LOL, will that help? I think I may have just set up an oxymoron. If so, I am the 'moron' part. Too many reds with dinner. ...... actually, just enough:D .... Zzzzzzzz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 19, 2007 Share #7 Posted October 19, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) So, does pressing a button on the back switch the camera on even if the rotating switch on the top is set to "off" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted October 19, 2007 Share #8 Posted October 19, 2007 So, does pressing a button on the back switch the camera on even if the rotating switch on the top is set to "off" No, if the switch works correctly. Even pressing a button on the back won't turn the camera on if it has gone into sleep mode with the switch on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted October 19, 2007 Share #9 Posted October 19, 2007 Sorry to have to poke a pin in that big hot--air balloon of yours but if you'd actually read my posts you'd have known that I do own an M8, in fact I persevered past exchanges on two that died until I found one that functioned, so much was my desire to own one. I like the camera very much, despite its few minor annoyances, none of which involve remedies that clip, slip or glue onto it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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