Huh, I’d never heard of silver batteries. Though I should say, it’s not battery life that puts me off digital readouts – I assume it’s no more of a hassle than it is for watches and calculators, i.e. none at all – it’s just that an LCD display detracts from that feeling of pretentious haute qualité.
That, and the extra precision is mostly spurious, in the sense that you’re usually taking a single measurement from a 3D object, and most objects aren’t regular enough to justify measurements to the nearest micron.
