Why does my digital camera use batteries up so fast?

Question

I have a E10 camera that uses up a pair of aa batteries with as few as 10 times of use. The camera was bought new in December and the sales person says thats normal. Any suggestions? Whats a better camera than this. It is a six mp with 3x zoom

Answer 1

if you are using flash and the aa batteries arent proper for photography then it could kill the batteries pretty fast. try getting some rechargeable or higher tecnology batteries.

Answer 2

Large LCD viewfinders eat batteries. It seems nice to have a big LCD monitor, but they are power hungry. You will have to do what you can to turn the thing off as soon as you don't need it any longer. Set it to shut off at the shortest possible interval after you take the picture. Set it so that it doesn't not display unless you tap the shutter button to wake it up. Even this will not go a long way towards conserving batteries.

You can't use plain alkaline batteries with this camera. You will need to use either high output NiMH rechargeable batteries or Energizer e2 LITHIUM batteries or the Duracell equivalent. The thing is, a camera needs full output in order to operate. The output curve on these lithium batteries remains fairly constant and strong until just before the battery dies, so they will operate your camera longer. If you test the alkaline batteries that are not strong enough to operate your camera, you will probably find that they still have about 80% power remaining or even more. They just don't have the juice to make the camera work with that monster LCD monitor.

Answer 3

You need to get a couple sets of AA sized rechargeable batteries. the NMHi ones have many times the energy storage as a regular set of alkalines.

Look for ones which are rated at least 2500mAh, which is a measure of how much energy they can store. more is better.

The Pentax Optio E10 is an inexpensive, basic camera, so you lose some features and capabilities. it's kinda slow to start up, not very responsive compared to others, and has very limited high ISO capability (actually, none)

Think about what features are important to you and how you will use your next camera and then ask again and perhaps we can come up with a recomendation that's just perfect for you. there are a lot of great cameras out these days, and each is a bit different.

Answer 4

Get some Energiser e² Lithium batteries. I use them all the time, and I have had these batteries for 2 months, taken about 100 pictures. And I have had some last 600 pictures.

They are $8 for 4 AA size. Worth the money.

Answer 5

mine does the same thing. i guess it's from not only taking the pictures, but reviewing them, and then putting them on my computer...i got rechargeable batteries so that i'm not spending so much on double a's!