Lithium Bats in K10D

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

If that's true, then I already have two spares ... The A2 takes the  
NP-400 Lithium battery. Replacements for this battery are available  
from several sources for as little as $20 at .

Godfrey

On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Thibouille wrote:

> Shel, a guy at the Pentax booth at Photokina told me (and was not
> supposed to so I won't say his name) that those batteries for the K10D
> are the same as Minolta **-400. Don't remind the first letters but
> according to the quick search I did on google they may be NP-400 which
> you should be able to find easily (and cheaper) than from Pentax.
>
>
> 2006/10/1, Shel Belinkoff <scbelinkoff at earthlink.net>:
>> Today was a bad battery day.  The Energizer AA Lithiums done got  
>> depleted
>> after just a few shots while I was doing some photography for some  
>> friends.
>> The problem was i didn't have any spares with me, and the problem was
>> compounded by the remaining charge indicator on the DS indicating  
>> the bats
>> were fine.  So, before the I get too much flack about being  
>> careless, which
>> I don't need, here's my question:  When using the Sony with their  
>> great
>> Info Lithium batteries, I always know the condition of the battery  
>> by the
>> various gauges on the camera, so I can always top off the bats  
>> overnight or
>> before leaving for the day.  The gauges used by Sony seem very  
>> accurate.
>>
>> Does the K10D have such indicators which provide a reasonably  
>> accurate
>> gauge as to the condition of the batteries?  The Sony also  
>> provides info on
>> how full the bats are when charging.  Does the K10D do something  
>> like that
>> as well?