Used EOS 3 with Lythium battery for 5 minutes? Any problems?

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Hi

I recently bought a Canon EOS 3 with BP-E1. I also purchased 2CR5 and a set of (4) AA batteries from the same camera dealer. I did not check out the AA battery before loading it. It was lythium batteries and I loaded it in my BP-E1 and kept the camera on for around 5 minutes. Then I noticed a warning statement in the user manual of BP-E1 saying that the use of Lythium batteries may cause damage to camera's internal circuits because it produces high current in the beginning. Immediately I switched off the camera and removed the batteries. But since then I am worried and afraid that my camera would have any problems or not. Since I am a beginner I am not in a position to analyse the metering and other things of the camera to find out wheather it is working properly or not. All the functions and metering modes looks like working fine. Till now did not give any problems. Will it make any problems for my camera in the long run? One thing I noticed immediately after loading those batteries was that it fired the shutter when I pressed the button half way. There was no lens attached to it and the mount was covered and I was sure that I pressed the button only half way. Is it because high current passed to the camera from those batteries?

Some one please give me some solutions?

Regards John Peter

-- John Peter (eosquestions@yahoo.com), January 28, 2002

Answers

I unknowingly used the same batteries in my Elan II for about 6 months. Nothing happened to the camera but when I learned that there may cause problems doing this,I removed them. Still going strong 1 1/2 years later.

-- Paul Nicol (nicol@roadrunner.nf.net), January 28, 2002.

Even less likely to cause a problem if you didn't use it any, and it was just on.

-- Carl Smith (emorphien@mail.rit.edu), January 28, 2002.

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