On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > The question of NiMH AA batteries in DSLRs was recently discussed here > in response to my question. > I've had my DS for ~4.5 years, and I've been having the original > lithiums in my bag since the day one. - I've never had to use them. > > For "big" events", I usually have the second set of 4 NiMH in the bag - just > in case, but at all other times, - I have just one in the camera. > > Over this period, 3 sets of batteries died (2 just recently), - > and until this year, I've been using a more-or-less regular "X1 charge > pro" 500mA charger. Now I have the La Crosse one. > Without using the built-in flash, I easily get at least 200-300 shots > on one fully-charged set of 2300-2600 mAh AA batteries. > The last "documented" shoot had ~450 shots within one evening, while > using two sets of batteries, and not completely exhausting the second one. > > With the built-in flash, (which I use rather seldom), - once I took > over 20-30 shots within an hour or so, and I don't think I've exhausted > the batteries. > > Igor >
200-300 shots per charge is extremely poor battery life for a DSLR. That's pretty much what my G1 gets, with a relatively small battery and always running in Live View (as the LCD & EVF eat batteries). The D300 got anywhere from 550-2900 shots per charge (It would get ~14GB of images per charge, irregardless of format). I generally got 550-600 14bit RAW's or around 1200 JPEG's per charge. The K10D got around 500 shots per charge. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
