AA batteries with the E-PL6

Guy Parsons wrote:

alexisgreat wrote:

What if I'm taking a long series of shots? I remember you told me awhile ago that setting the camera to burst mode places strain on the shutter and shortens its life but I discovered a work around; if you keep the shutter half pressed through the shot, the focus stays locked and you can take one shot at a time with the focus continuously locked for as long as you want. This wouldn't wear down the shutter like continuous mode and shorten its life?

Unless you have an M4/3 camera with fully electronic shutter, then in any burst mode the focal plane shutter is always clattering away. It's what you hear when you shoot.

But what if you dont have burst mode turned on and merely keep the shutter half pressed and just take the next shot as soon as the prior one is saved?  Is there a benefit to doing that in terms of less shutter wear?  If you could estimate, what would you say is an average number of pictures you take per day with the E-PL5 or E-P5?

My E-520 can't do that- I suspect no DSLR can because of the mirror having to move up and down. I'm now using this feature to do exposure bracketing (7 frames, 0.3 ev interval), in single frame mode, you keep the shutter half pressed and you can quickly take the whole series, one frame at a time, with the shutter locked and the camera sorts them in order of increasing exposure (except for the first frame, which is the median of the exposures.) In shutter priority mode, I found that it alters the ISO- which is what I want. In manual exposure mode (which I haven't tried yet), would I suspect it would change the shutter speed?

I never use exposure bracketing so I don't know what goes on. I take one shot (carefully) and leave it at that.

My issue is that with 1/3 stop ISO and changing lighting conditions, I never quite know which ISO to use and found the best results by underexposing somewhere between 1 and 2.3 stops.

Probably! I'd settle for Universal RAW format (although Pentax does use .DNG)

DNG seems to be a weird dead end that is rarely used by camera makers.

I also read somewhere that weatherproof is another dead end because camera makers do not honor water damaged cameras regardless!

Hey no one answered my question from earlier, if I get that E-620 AA grip do you think it's possible I could alter it to use on the E-PL6, especially with AA batteries?

Seems like an impossible and/or cumbersome task.

What's wrong with having some spare batteries and keeping the camera switched off most of the time to make the batteries last longer?

Regards..... Guy

I think I may have gotten it to work, reviewing only a small subset of the total number of pictures the camera took- got the camera to last on one battery for a week and a half!