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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:00 AM
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A question about digital cameras.
I recently bought an inexpensive digital camera on sale. I'm happy with the pictures I have taken, but the thing takes 3 AAA batteries, and even though I use alkaline batteries and have the camera set to turn itself off after 30 seconds, the batteries go dead in about 24 hours. What can I do?
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:07 AM
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1. what brand of battery are you using? I've found that you get
what you pay for when it comes to batteries.
Anyway, they shouldn't be wearing out that soon. check with the dealer or manufacturer to see what may be wrong...good luck
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:08 AM
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2. They do tend to eat through alkaline batteries
Edited on Wed Jul-26-06 01:10 AM by haruka3_2000
What I recommend are the Energizer E2 lithium batteries. They cost a couple bucks more, but they also last much longer. I think they're worth it.

Here's their product page...
http://www.energizer.com/products/lithium/default.aspx
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:21 AM
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4. Thanks. I have used so far
Energizer alkaline, Duracell, and Maxell alkaline batteries. I do turn the camera off between pix. I'll try the lithium batteries.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:23 AM
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6. Yeah, alkaline is a waste with digicams.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:15 AM
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3. You might try turning off the camera between pics..........
Even my expensive SLR with its fancy battery runs down faster than I like...

So I turn it off between pics unless I'm on a roll!

And I'm getting used to it......

:hi:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:21 AM
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5. Lithium rechargable batteries
The only way to go with digital, IMO.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-31-06 11:21 PM
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9. So true...
after we got a digital, we got the energizer recharables, the digital would cut through the regular batteries to quickly, and the rechargeable route, has worked out wonderfully...
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-26-06 01:34 AM
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7. Buy some rechargeable AAA batteries and a charger.
It might cost you 35-50 dollars to buy 6 good quality
AAA's and a plugin charger, but you will be way ahead
of the $$$ game inside a month.

Disposable batteries are a sucker's game up here in the year 2006.
They are ancient history; totally obsolete technology.

The amazing high-tech devices on the market today
require equally amazing amounts of electrical POWER.

Disposable-battery tech peaked decades ago; it is only
clinging to life via massive advertising budgets.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-31-06 11:18 PM
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8. Not in all instances....

I can't STAND the fact that every doohickey requires its own charging doohickey - particularly for devices that are supposed to be "mobile".

(yes, I have an octopus-like universal charging doohickey)

I would much rather pop in a AAA, available anywhere, to power an mp3 player than to be SOL miles from nowhere with a dead rechargeable battery that I can't recharge.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-31-06 11:31 PM
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10. See if it has an option to turn off the preview
You don't need to see your photos immediately after you make them, and leaving on the LCD viewer eats batteries like M&Ms.

If you really want to save batteries, turn off the LCD viewer altogether and use the optical viewfinder.

Also, if the camera has an optical zoom lens, try not to rack it unless absolutely necessary. The zoom motor is another battery-eater.
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