Originally posted by Marc Sabatella Read what I wrote above again, then read the manual if you don't believe me. The cameras *not designed* to work with alkalines.
It does however work with alkalines. Before I had low self discharge NiMH, I purchased some Duracell alkalines, at greatly inflated prices, at the top of the Eiffel tower, when none of my regular NiMH worked.
I only got somewhere between 200-300 shots out of them. Without flash - I was using external flash.
Quote: So forget the alkalines - they won't work. Get a set of Eneloops and your problems are over. Lithiums will work too, but of course, you'll need to keep buying new ones every few weeks. Much more expensive than getting some Eneloops.
Other than that, I do agree eneloops are the way to go. That's all I use now with the K200D . And with most other devices I have that take AAs/AAAs too. You can get 700 shots out of the eneloops easily.
The Lithium will last longer (1000 shots), but are not rechargeable.