Trouble with "auto off" on D200

[Ray Stuff]

I'be been laid up with a broken ankle for past 2 months so I've been trying a lot of new stuff on the D200. However, on two occasions I've come back to the camera, found I left it on and the battery dead. Is it my imagination but isn't the D200 supposed to turn off automatically if you forget to do it if none of the buttons get pushed in a period of time?

Letting the batterys go flat is not particularly good for them not to mention the need to carry hundreds of expensive batterys around !!

Is there a menu that I've overlooked that's been changed or something like that.

I've looked iin the manual but find no answer there.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Ray.........

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[NKND200]

I did the same thing a couple of times, but NO menu option to auto turn-off the D200.

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[DonBJr]

There's an auto-off timer setting for the meter, and the LCD on the back, but I don't think there's anything else. Typically, 'on' with the meter off, is pretty close to as off as the off is, which isn't really completely off either.

Setting the meter timeout to never go off will drain your batteries quick.

 

[theFool]

unless you have something (such as a GPS) connected to the camera which makes it constantly meter, or something is halfpressing your shutter release, the camera will go into standby after a few seconds (see meter-off timer in the menu)
in standby it hardly uses any battery.

(I often leave it in standby for days - in fact I never turned off my D100, even if I didn't use it for weeks, the D200 doesn't last quite that long)

just check whether the meter goes off after a few seconds (the aperture & shutterspeed number on the top lcd disappear). and check whether your camera bag doesn't half-press the shutter release, or press the af-on or the AE lock buttons

theFool

 

[Ruby Rod]

There isn't much difference in power consumption between on and off, if the meter and LCD have turned off. Check the view times for those in the menu. If everything is in standby, and the batteries are running down quickly, something is probably amiss.
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Ruby