On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:10:29 -0700, "RG" wrote:


Well, after all it seems I didn't get through to you. In very
simple English: There are place where any type of electrical equipment,
including digital cameras, are useless as soon as the batteries
are flat. People that go to those places are not much of a gadget
buying market so their needs will not be catered for by anyone who
is in it for the money.


Geez, most modern film cameras rely on batteries for metering, flash, film
advance/rewind, focus and God knows what else. Perhaps people who go to the
places you are referring to should learn to draw really, really well and
take lots of pencils with them. Of course there was a time that such
adventures were chronicled in exactly this way. I'm thinking there must be
solutions these days that would allow for the recharging of relatively
modest batteries in remote locations. A very small inverter hooked up to
one of the safari vehicles comes immediately to mind. I'm sure there must
be other solutions as well. Personally, I'd be most concerned as to how to
keep the beer cold, which presents a far greater challenge than recharging
some small capacity batteries.


In Greenland?

I can't imagine any photographer going anywhere for months at a time
without access to a generator once in a while. The battery packs most pros
wear on their belts should power a digital SLR for quite a while.

Hell, I get about 150 shots out of one charging of the D200 battery!