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KM A200 - recharging without losing setup?

Started Jun 21, 2015 | Discussions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: KM A200 - recharging without losing setup?

Glad it arrived O.K .

There surprisingly rugged these old Minolta's .

I got mine about 6 or 7 years ago , I think I got the A2 first and then the A200 because of the tilting and swivelling screen .

At the time the only DSLR's I had were the Dynax 7d and Sony a100 , neither of which had live view . That was one of the main attractions of the A200 for use doing macro and close up's at low / ground level .

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Funnily enough I've been looking at getting another battery for mine a few weeks back .

I did have a few spares but I seem to have mislaid them amongst my other gear .....

Worse still , I took the battery out of the A200 and put it on charge about 6 weeks ago , and I'm dammed if I can remember where !

I think it might be at a friends house that I stay at from time to time , be meeting up with her again in a few weeks so will find out then .

Should be charged up by now anyway !

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Luckily I have a spare battery in the cameras case , and found a spare charger , so not a problem .

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Regarding batteries , there's a lot to go at . The cheap ones seem to be pot luck , but ones that I know are O.K are as follows .

I've had /got batteries made by these firms for other cameras I have and all seem to hold a good charge , including when not in use . some cheap one self discharge as soon as you look away from them .

These links are for traders on Ebay U.K , you'll need to do a search for local to you .

Inov8 ( as in Inovate ) Dearest , but I believe to be the best .

Delkin , I've had some NP-400 batteries made by this firm for my Dynax 7d and Pentax k10d that must be over 7 year old . Good quality .

Uniross , another well known brand .

The battery for the KM Dimage A200 is the NP-800 , while your doing a search also check for the ones listed as a Nikon EN-EL1 , that's also the same battery and as it was supplied with a lot more Nikon cameras than Minolta , is listed more common .

The ones I linked to might supply to the USA , so worth checking .

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As I believe these are your main cameras , you might want more power .

Especially if you want to try your hand at time-lapse photography .

I won another set of the Minolta external battery power pack ( EBP-100 ) , this holds two NP-100 batteries in it , both 1600mAh . So the 3200mAh is a bit of a step up from the 800mAh !

Not very common , but worth keeping your eye open .

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P.s , just ordered the Delkin one , still need to find my others . On a two week holiday at the end of the month , and will be taking the camera with me .

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