AC adapter & Lithium batteries

New S1 owner.

My assumption in using the AC adapter, is that if one leaves the Lithium batteries in the camera, instead of replacing them with the battery adapter, one still will draw on the Lithium batteries even though the AC adapter is connected. Is this correct?

my understanding is that the lithiums, when left in on AC, will discharge faster...I have gotten into the habit of removing them & using the battery bypass...this is recommended by Fuji, I believe

I have gotten into the habit of removing them &

Artichoke #46716 said:

using the battery bypass...this is recommended by Fuji, I believe

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You are correct Sir. --Happy shooting;Mike Flood http://home.earthlink.net/~floodfoto/

After eating my 5th set of batteries I quit replacing them all together..

I put the dummy set in about 6 months ago and have not seen anything that it actually does... other than run the onboard popup flash which I don't use. What I can't figure out is what the lithums were powering for me to have to replace them ever couple of weeks....

Terry,

If you have lithiums in, they are used to power everything, not related to digital: Focusing, meetering, top lcd, lcd in viewfinder and so on. The same way as it is in regular Nikon N65.

Dummy makes the camera to take power from your AAs for everything. The reason flash is not working with dummy is that during recharge flash would draw so much current from battaries it would make operations of digital part of body (saving previous shot) impossible.
That is why internal flash is disabled if you use dummy.
I always use dummy and external flash.

-Igor

Terry Wood said:

After eating my 5th set of batteries I quit replacing them all
together..
I put the dummy set in about 6 months ago and have not seen
anything that it actually does... other than run the onboard popup
flash which I don't use. What I can't figure out is what the
lithums were powering for me to have to replace them ever couple of
weeks....

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On this subject

If you use the CR123 battery eliminator and 4 hi power rechargable nimh batteries how many shots on average should you get

John H>

some other functions are different (minor) when using the dummy

for innstance you may not see the yellow information line in the view finder, particularly as your AAs start to lose charge...autofocus degrades a bit as well

if your Li batteries are wearing out too quick and you use the AC connector, ALWAYS replace the Li with the dummy when on the AC mains...the manual warns about having the Li batteries in with the AC connnected causing the Li batteries to lose their charge rapidly

Number of shots could depend on may conditions.
Dummy and 4 Nimh rechargables 1600 mA 'NexCell',
80-200 F2.6 AFD (very important, your number of shots will depend on lens used)
Automatic Preview On, auto focusing
Jpeg Normal (1meg/picture)
I took 300 pictures during 4 hours on one fresh set of charged battaries.

IgorO