Battery reading on G3?

Peter:

Sorry - typing while talking to my wife and watching TV...I shouldn't try to walk and chew gum at the same time.

More tomorrow.

Dana

Hello,ive been using my d30 for 18 months or so & had got used to the low battery warning,[normally plenty of shooting left yet] but was caught out with the G3 with the low warning then almost instant shut down.I'm glad ive got into the habit of having a spare battery & c/f card kept next to the camera waiting to go.
The c/f cards are also only half the capacity when used on super fine setting on the g3 compared to the large /fine settings on d30.
Only had the g3 a week so still learning,but great fun & complements the D30 well.

Trumper - glad you're enjoying the G3.

One suggestion - do some comparisons between the fine and super-fine settings to see if it matters for your purposes. This is a subjective area - ranges from folks saying they shoot most or all RAW to others (like me) who shoot all large/fine jpg.

I did several side-by-side 8X10 prints at super fine and fine and found that neither I nor my family could see any significant difference between. So I've opted for large/fine (220+ images on a 256 MB card). Saving storage space on CF cards isn't a critical priority for me, but I don't want to "waste" time writing, uploading, editing, and storing larger files than I need to for my purposes.

I am going to play w/RAW a bit just to see how much fun (or not) that is...

As always, this is a YMMV situation.

Dana