Im glad someone bought it as when it got to £450 for the body I nearly arranged my own early demise by buying it. The thought of 'her indoors' reaction to a third camera appearing was the ONE thing that prevented me.

Paul

Hi Simon

Welcome from Lincolnshire

Paul

Hi Steph

You might try this link: -

http://www.srb-griturn.com/cable-release-bracket-for-slr-cameras-860-p.asp


Good Luck

Paul

John!

I seriously think that your comment about 'Do we hound people' was way out of both context and order!

If you read the posts properly I believe you will see, or should i say hope? that it was a bit of banter...................

At least I am sure on most peoples part!

Paul

Ive NEVER heard of a Pentax battery 'bursting into flames'!

Excellent capture, one of my favourite birds

Paul

I purchased my Bigma from Clifton Cameras and can only say that the service from them was absolutely excellent. I would reccomend them to anyone.


Paul

You appear to have 'got the ghost HG'

Paul

Hi Syd

Private messages - you can send a message to an individual member. If you cant do them yet, (min qual period), then you can use email instead.

Paul

John is correct in that the Pentax issue battery is supplied as 1620mAh.

The 'DL-150' is in a way a generic battery as it is standard to more than one item rather than Pentax specific. i.e It is the same battery as the Minolta NP400 Battery (VB104055)+ other items across the camcorder range, with the exception of the mAh rating stated ON the battery.
The generic 150 refers to the capacity of the battery in mAh's - basically the life of the battery between charges. It can be 'delivered as 1450 - 1700mAh depending on the batch and would be badged as such.
It also varies between third part suppliers even though badged as a DL-150, ie, Inova, Impact etc. The difference between 1500 and 1620 mAh just means longer to charge/more shots between charges.

You can in actual fact find the 'Pentax DL-150 battery advertised as 1750mAh, although i suspect that this will be a 're-badged' version.

The DL-190 is pretty much the same and can appear advertised varying from 1400mAh - 2000mAh.

From personal experience with 'both versions' there appears to be no variance in performance, certainly over time. If their is a loss in life then it would need VERY close monitoring to validate.

At the end of the day it is almost certainly 'marketing practices' from individual manufacturers designed to help confuse us and even take more money of us for what could be the same item.

Paul