Digital cameras ... your experiences please ...?

Question

I would like to hear from people using digital cameras with rechargeable lithium batteries but I am concerned about their 'staying power' .... do these allow you to have a day out and take as many pics as you want? ...... is it necessary to care a spare charged battery? ..... I am concerned because my current camera is two years old and uses normal/rechargeable AA's that seldom last longer than a few pics. Your experiences please ......

Answer 1

Buy the official Lithium ION battery which is usually made by the camera manufacturer, or a camera shop like Jessops will usually stock one with their own name on it for a few pounds less (in my case it was the same price, so I bought the manufacturer one). You should definitely buy a spare, so you have one in the camera and one in your pocket or camera bag.

From the battery in my Nikon hybrid I get quite a long run, depending on how long I keep the camera turned on and how much I move the zoom in and out, it can range from a few hours to all day on one battery, and if I just take the occasional photo it will last me days or weeks. No problems with battery 'memory' so far, I use the official battery charger (came with my camera, not all camera's come with the charger but there's usually an official one available - I would definitely recommend the manufacturer's own official accessories). I rotate my batteries too - one is in the camera and the other gets charged, I switch them over when the camera tells me it's out of juice.

Digital SLR's eat batteries, my hybrid is pretty good :-)

Answer 2

Personally, I love my digital camera. I have a canon with about 7.1 megapixels. The battery is a rechargable lithium battery and lasts usually for at least a day if the battery were to be on the whole time. If it is turning on and off for short period of times it lasts for a few outings. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Battery life varies quite a bit based on brand, model, settings and usage.
However, you should figure you will get at least 200+ pics between recharges unless you are doing 100% flash.
So yes, this should allow you to have "a day out" as long as it's fully charged when you start out.
If you can afford it, a spare battery is a good idea anyway since just maybe you will head out having forgotten to first charge your battery.

Answer 4

a rechargable lithium battery should give you at least one good day out taking as many pics as you want.
Bear in mind that cerain factors use the battery more, like flash, viewing photos you've already taken, using the screen, etc.
A second battery is preferable, but only really necessary if you're going to take more than about 500 photos, I'd say.

The life span of a lithium battery is about 2 or 3 years of heavy usage, around 600 recharges

Answer 5

Rechargeable NiMh batteries are the best. They generally last a very good time. (Especially the higher powered ones...2100-3200).
Using the flash or taking video will drain the batteries quicker...and also the LCD screen uses a lot of power too, so maybe its wise to turn the screen off in between shots.
Some of the newer cameras are more power efficient, so battery life is longer.
Most cameras should give you 200-300 shots with one charge.

Answer 6

I'm on my second Fulji Finepix. The first died from dust and sand damage. The batteries have been fine for a full day out and more. Only ever died once when I was on a "vigil" in a "haunted" castle, other peoples batteries went dead at the same time woooohhaaa! But supernatural influencse aside, they've been really reliable for the last couple of years.

Answer 7

I use an Olympus Mju with lithium batteries.

Charge it before you go out and take as many pictures as you like. I use a 512 MB RAM card and have never had a problem with low batteries.

Excellent camera all round

Never ever bother with a camera with AA rechargable batteries, as you inidcate they are useless.

Answer 8

Sony DSC-R1. Recharging battery inside the camera takes about 2 hours. Good for about 500 pictures.

However, that's a top of the line camera.

Answer 9

My youthful ones have a $one hundred fifty 5MP Aiptek digicam. It makes use of AAs which my youthful ones question me to purchase virtually weekly which i'm about to sparkling up by technique of shopping for rechargeables. It shoots quickly see you later simply by the indisputable fact that's given adequate gentle as with all different digicam, inexpensive or not, available. it ought to cope with events, action and flying photos, back, if performed less than a lot volume of sunshine, like the solar. that's surely sturdy because it has already survived 3 years with my youthful ones who're now 10 and 13. the purely fix I had in my opinion performed to that's to take off a speck of fungi from the digital sensor which meant disassembling the entire element less than an hour because it had to be utilized in the present day in a field holiday. the purely photo stabilization it has is a smooth hand and a $a million.seventy 5 mini-tripod.

Answer 10

I have a Samsung digital and the batteries do get used up quickly but not so quickly that you cant have a few days out with it and taking lots of pictures. Suppose it depends on what camera you have.