Well a bad battery will make the whole pack work substandardly. And if
your charger does not charge them individually it will cause you to have
a mischarged pack that will not last long. Rechargables really need to
be used regularly. For my use I gave up on them and went to AA Lithiums.
They can sit around for years and still be good, and even used heavily
(for me these days) they last me several months.
None of that is istD specific as I do not have one.
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Amita Guha wrote:
About a month ago, I tried to use my *istD, but the batteries were
dead. The other two sets of Nimh's I keep for it were dead as well. I
wasn't too concerned because I hadn't used the camera in a while. A
couple of days ago, I charged up all three sets, and today I headed
out to shoot. My first set lasted about 6 minutes/11 exposures, the
2nd set lasted about the same, and the 3rd were dead when I put them
in the camera, even though they'd been fully charged. When we got
home, we found out that at least two batteries were bad. The rest
seemed to charge up normally pretty quickly in the one-hour charger.
Now I am trying to figure out if the problem is with the camera or the
batteries. We bought all the batteries at about the same time, a year
and a half ago. Is the *istD known to develop problems reading
batteries? Nate thinks we might need to change the little battery for
the *istD's computer. I am hoping it is just a simple matter of the
Nimhs going bad all at once.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Amita
