Originally posted by Alfisti The thing is though, all this discussion, all these endless threads and endless analysis of battery brands, chargers, guages not working, notes needed in the manual or on the box to direct customers to the correct power source and/or firmware ...... it could all be avoided if they just used a proper battery.
By "proper", I assume you mean the kind that requires a proprietary charger I and can'tbe shared between any of my other devices and most likely won't be available in a few years. You continue to just not get that there are those who actually *prefer* AA's over proprietary cells, and that this is a *big* selling point - and it has nothing* to do with treks to Timbuktu.
So, to the extent that the tiny percentage of people who can't figure out how to use Google to sort it out for themselves is a problem, "solving" this problem by turning away the many customers who choose one of these Pentax cameras specifically *because* it can use AA'a would likely be counterproductive. Instead, what's wrong with the simle solution of including an obvious note int he package that tells you what kind of cells to use? that way, everyone can be happy - those who *prefer* AA's get a camera that uses them, those who don't know what kind of AA's to get are informed right away, and you don't have waste your breath complaining.