Les Hillis
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+1 on having a more obvious low battery warning when using 'dumb' batteries, if it doesn't take too much coding effort.
Testing with some 150Wh batteries, it took about 2.5 hours to get down to 13V, but only 10mins from there to get to auto-shutdown, with the yellow text low-voltage warning kicking in within less than a minute before auto-shutdown at 10.6V.
With the voltage falling off exponentially like that, as soon as I see the voltage get to 12.9 volts I try to change the battery before I get distracted and forget about it, as there's literally only about a minute or two left before auto-shutdown by the time it gets down to 12.0 volts.
I'd rather see the Voltage readout turn red and flash at the 12.9V mark, as that would give you about five minutes warning before the more rapid fall-off after that.
As others have said, it's not a huge issue, but I think letting the camera just shut itself down isn't a good habit to get into, and making it easier to tell when you should shut it down yourself is a good idea. I don't like letting the camera go into auto-shutdown like that even when I know it's going to happen, and I find it's always a cause for concern when it sneaks up on you and shuts down like that unexpectedly, even if it's not mid-shot.
Testing with some 150Wh batteries, it took about 2.5 hours to get down to 13V, but only 10mins from there to get to auto-shutdown, with the yellow text low-voltage warning kicking in within less than a minute before auto-shutdown at 10.6V.
With the voltage falling off exponentially like that, as soon as I see the voltage get to 12.9 volts I try to change the battery before I get distracted and forget about it, as there's literally only about a minute or two left before auto-shutdown by the time it gets down to 12.0 volts.
I'd rather see the Voltage readout turn red and flash at the 12.9V mark, as that would give you about five minutes warning before the more rapid fall-off after that.
As others have said, it's not a huge issue, but I think letting the camera just shut itself down isn't a good habit to get into, and making it easier to tell when you should shut it down yourself is a good idea. I don't like letting the camera go into auto-shutdown like that even when I know it's going to happen, and I find it's always a cause for concern when it sneaks up on you and shuts down like that unexpectedly, even if it's not mid-shot.