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Old 08-03-2008, 02:29 PM   #15
bjsmith
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Originally Posted by SteveB View Post
You can check out the theory of battery voltage dropping too much during a shot just by using MF where camera battery current consumption will be very low if a hot shoe flash is used. There's only 2 things things that gobble up current from camera batteries, AF and the popup flash.
Agreed, those will be the two biggest current suckers.
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