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Started Apr 18, 2022 | Discussions thread
JeremieB Senior Member • Posts: 2,041
Re: Hungry for energy

Phil A Martin wrote:

DougOB wrote:

Phil A Martin wrote:

MarBa wrote:

True .. but K-3 III is quite bad as well. Pentax needs a new battery system with higher capacity.

Best,

M

Bad? What do you mean by bad? Admittedly the KP battery life has been compromised to reduce size but my K5, K3 and K1ii are pretty good. What makes the K3iii worse than the three I own?

The rear display (touch screen) on the K-3iii seems to draw a bit of power. If you minimize its use you are fine.

Right, I can see how that might happen. My KP literally eats batteries in live mode, it must be similar.

Doug

I deactivated the preview post capture, and I usually don't increase back LCD brightness (or if I need to, I switch it back to default setting quickly), and honestly doing this I never had to worry about the battery of K3III. Ok I also don't use the BT/wifi connectivity or geotagging, that probably helps.

I know for sure if I don't use the live view I can take approx 1000 photos on full battery - with live view it's much less of course, you're right it eats battery quickly in this mode.

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