On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:22:24PM -0400, Graywolf wrote: > Been looking at some older diggies on eBay. Just noticed that if you buy an > older camera that uses proprietory batteries you get the same capacity as > came with the camera when it was new, if you can find new batteries at all. > If it uses AA batteries you can get the latest 2500ma batteries instead of > the 850ma ones that came with the camera. Looks like Pentax did the right > thing again.
With an older digital I'd be more worried about availablity than capacity. For a while it looked as though Canon had settled on a standard battery; my PowerShot G1 took the same batteries as the contemporary high-end DSLRs. But nowadays it almost seems as though every camera uses a unique battery, which will probably be hard to find five years from now.
