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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 562046" data-attributes="member: 9240">Folks, you're not reading this with comprehension.&nbsp; This is not about VR draining the battery - it's about third party lenses that happen to have VR drain the D500 battery when it's not in use.Anything that pulls on the battery will drain it.&nbsp; This is about an abnormality when using 3rd party lenses where without symptom or warning the battery will drain as if the camera is in use when it is simply sitting idle.My question is not how to fix it or mitigate battery drain, it is &quot;Has anyone else experienced this type of anomaly?!&quot;, because so far in my querying of D500 owners I have been unable to find anyone who has experienced the issues I am having with my personal copy.There's a significant difference between a community of users experiencing an issue with a third party product (or products) and one and only one individual experiencing it.&nbsp; I fully expect that any of the well documented cases of times going an extra minute or Live View focusing not working will be met with utter contempt from Nikon, and thankfully Sigma is addressing these as much as they can, and I suspect other manufacturers will as well.&nbsp; But if it's a one and only one condition then it points to a defect in my copy, in which case I would look for Nikon to resolve or replace it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 562046, member: 9240"] Folks, you're not reading this with comprehension. [B][I]This is not about VR draining the battery - it's about third party lenses [U]that happen to have VR[/U] drain the D500 battery when it's not in use.[/I][/B] Anything that pulls on the battery will drain it. This is about [U][I][B]an abnormality[/B][/I][/U] when using 3rd party lenses where [B][I][U]without symptom or warning[/U][/I][/B] the battery will drain as if the camera is in use when it is simply sitting idle. My question is not how to fix it or mitigate battery drain, it is [B][I][U]"Has anyone else experienced this type of anomaly?!"[/U][/I][/B], because so far in my querying of [B][I][U]D500 owners[/U][/I][/B] I have been unable to find anyone who has experienced the issues I am having with my personal copy. There's a significant difference between a community of users experiencing an issue with a third party product (or products) and one and only one individual experiencing it. I fully expect that any of the well documented cases of times going an extra minute or Live View focusing not working will be met with utter contempt from Nikon, and thankfully Sigma is addressing these as much as they can, and I suspect other manufacturers will as well. But if it's a [B]one and only one[/B] condition then it points to a defect in [B]my copy[/B], in which case I would look for Nikon to resolve or replace it. [/QUOTE]

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