On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:53:27PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
Whilst in principle I'd agree(*), in practice I've found that he 'fancy' custom batteries perform by orders of magnitude better. I very nearly
I agree with that for certain, the S70 takes custom batteries but they do last a very long time. Even when they warn you that they are getting low (about 3 days worth of 100-150 photos in my experience) you'll still get at least another 40 shots out of them (maybe 15 with flash).
business. Even with rechargable batteries and charger bought from a good photographic supplier (I can't remember which off hand) they would not keep their charge in the camera when not in use for more than a few days. When used they would manage around 10 shots before giving up. Even new batteries didn't improve things. I suspect everyone is now
I'd suspect that the charger wasn't up to much, decent chargers cost lots of money but batteries seem pretty run of the mill other than the difference in mah raing) whatever you buy as long as they are branded. There are some webpages out there that have tests done with various batteries and charger found that batteries are all pretty much of a muchness (all within about 10% of each other and their mah rating) but the charger is the most important link. When I spent £30 on a decent charger (see http://www.mahaenergy.co.uk/ ) a few years back (of course the damn thing is now broken but that might have been my fault as i did drop it, hence the new Varta charger) I found that all my batteries suddenly worked for approximately twice as long, not that I ever had to actually worry too much about it then as I could take a camera out for the day and not ever have to change batteries any more so I'd just change batteries with fresh at the end of the day and stick others in the charger. It is worth mentioning that nimh batteries can lose 40% of their charge over a month if they are not used, especially if they are stored in warm conditions so you really do need to charge them the night before or on the day you want to actually use them.
Adam