Camera Batteries

[eno]

It's not very often I recommend products ... only when I'm seriously impressed.

Recently I saw an advert  for a new type of battery .... advertised with the strap line "If your digital camera could only take 64 pictures with your old batteries, with Energizer Lithium it will take over 600."

I am naturally sceptical about this type of claim. However the cost of batteries is one of the things that cripples me when it comes to photography. The other downsides .... having to carry boxes of batteries wether rechargeable or not and the hassle of recharging rechargeables in the the middle of nowhere.

I purchased some of the advertised batteries ..... and they have done exactly what the claims say. 60-70 pics on standard batteries ..... I'm now up to 400+ on the Lithiums with no sign of them running flat ... this includes long exposures and using the flash.

Yes, they are expensive ..... but well worth the money.
So here's the recommendation .... Energizer Lithium .

[Omag 2.0]

On my camera batterypacks are used. The standard one is ok, but since I bought my battery-grip with extra-accu, I can shoot an entire day, with room to spare. So I agree, batteries cast money and don't seem to add any value to the cam, but you'll be glad you invested in them when you take a shot you would otherwise have missed...

One downside... added battery capacity causes a new problem... you run out of storage, suddenly you have to buy some extra SD or Compact-flash cards...  ;)  ;D

[pepper_airborne]

I can shoot all day long with my camera and still have battery room left to transfer them all through a USB 1.0 port to the computer

[expat]

[quote]On my camera batterypacks are used. The standard one is ok, but since I bought my battery-grip with extra-accu, I can shoot an entire day, with room to spare. So I agree, batteries cast money and don't seem to add any value to the cam, but you'll be glad you invested in them when you take a shot you would otherwise have missed...

One downside... added battery capacity causes a new problem... you run out of storage, suddenly you have to buy some extra SD or Compact-flash cards...

[Rifleman]

I can shoot all day long with my camera and still have battery room left to transfer them all through a USB 1.0 port to the computer

Why wouldn't you just get a card reader and not use any camera battery power to transfer images ?......I've been doing that for almost 10 yrs now.......

On the battery side, I've used eBay to set myself up with plenty of power.........aftermarket batteries can be acquired cheaply and right to your door. Much cheaper than local camera shops, especially if you are using proprietary packs.......my best deal was for my little point 'n shoot.......
Local price was $70 for 1 950 mah pack as opposed to 2 1150 mah packs for $11.34 - again, delivered right to my door. Shop around to get your best deal !

Using deals like this, I go out to shoot with three battery packs and enough storage space for around 1500 images.......get your memory cards when the deals are on, but remember that if a large card crashes, you may lose all or have to use an expensive data recovery method. 2 gig cards are plenty if you have three of them also........ 8-)

[Omag 2.0]

Just be carefull with counterfit SD-cards and batteries... Ebay is a big source of this sort of products. I'd rather buy at a local shop and even then check every thing out carefully.

[expat]

Just be carefull with counterfit SD-cards and batteries... Ebay is a big source of this sort of products. I'd rather buy at a local shop and even then check every thing out carefully.

I have just bought my grip from ebay. It was from a company in China :-? The kit was the grip, two batterie and the AA adapter. They had a good feedback and it was so cheap I decided to give it a go. I ordered it from Germany and had it delivered to my holiday address here in the USA.
1. It arrived
2. It is good quality
3. The batteries are also good quality
4. Did not get screwed for import tax............The German tax man would have taken a cut that would have made it not worth even trying.

All in all I

[BigTruck]

thanks for sharing the info!  I personally have a battery pack for my DLSR but it is good for about 500 shots and i keep a spare fully charged so I'm good as far as that goes but with my point and shoot canon I get about 400 shots on Duracells so I can imagine the energizers would blow that away huh, much appreciated

[Ravang]

It's not very often I recommend products ... only when I'm seriously impressed.

Recently I saw an advert  for a new type of battery .... advertised with the strap line "If your digital camera could only take 64 pictures with your old batteries, with Energizer Lithium it will take over 600."

I am naturally sceptical about this type of claim. However the cost of batteries is one of the things that cripples me when it comes to photography. The other downsides .... having to carry boxes of batteries wether rechargeable or not and the hassle of recharging rechargeables in the the middle of nowhere.

I purchased some of the advertised batteries ..... and they have done exactly what the claims say. 60-70 pics on standard batteries ..... I'm now up to 400+ on the Lithiums with no sign of them running flat ... this includes long exposures and using the flash.

Yes, they are expensive ..... but well worth the money.
So here's the recommendation .... Energizer Lithium .

I agree I had a problem with my Kodak Z712 because normal batteries died pretty quickly in it so I brought some of the lithium batteries and they great, but I found the pile lithium batteries last a bit longer than the two AA sized ones.

Example of a Energizer Lithium pile battery (since their hard to describe)


8-)

[Rifleman]

Just be carefull with counterfit SD-cards ........

Kris, do you mean minor brands of Secure Digital memory cards as opposed to major name brand cards (Lexar, San-Disk, etc).........I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "counterfeit".........

[Omag 2.0]

I don't mean minor brands, but fake cards of marks like Sandisk.

http://martybugs.net/articles/fakesandisk.cgi

You just can't check the origin of the material on ebay. Even in regular stores they turn up.

They work, but don't offer the same quality as the genuine cards...

[mrjake2002]

I don't mean minor brands, but fake cards of marks like Sandisk.

http://martybugs.net/articles/fakesandisk.cgi

You just can't check the origin of the material on ebay. Even in regular stores they turn up.

They work, but don't offer the same quality as the genuine cards...

Yep, much better to get them from a trusted shop. Amazon are selling 4GB Extreme III (30mb/s write speed!) for just