Camera eats the battery!!!!

I have had some pretty good luck with the Duracell batteries. And now, it is my understanding that they have a lithium battery that costs a little more, but lasts a lot longer. It is also supposed to be better for the environment because it lasts so much longer than the standard coppertop battery by Duracell. I think my camera goes through batteries faster than anything I own, but it is not as bad as some of the cameras that people have told me about. Like yours, only lasting one week. I am planning to shop for a new camera soon. Your discussion here makes me want to do research on the length of time for the battery before I make a final decision for my camera choice!

Im eating a cheese stick right now but what I want is a ceasar salad. I rarely have leftovers so each time I make them for scratch and recently its been everyday because there such a quick meal with lots of bang but I was expecting to be out of the house by now so I'll have to pick something up when Im out today.

Cameras do tend to go through batteries in no time at all. Your best bet is to go and invest in a set of rechargeable batteries and a charger. Not sure which brand is best, but any rechargeable batteries should be okay If you can take a picture without using the flash that should help save some of the battery

nimh rechargible are the way to go.also the number of megapixels your camera can handle matters as the higher the number the faster it eats them up.you shouldn't use alkiline ones or mix the types of them.

I think its cheaper when you own a battery charger. You don't have to go out there and spend tons of money on batteries all the time. Just recharge them. I have a digital camera that eats up the batteries all the time but I make sure I have some on hand that are recharged.

I most definetly agree digital cameras eat alot of batteries. Its good to get the rechargeable ones that they cell.

Maplin do a good deal on batteries. NiMH (nickel metal hydride - or something like that) and a charger cost under £10 and the batteries can be charged over 1000 times before they die. I also have a solar battery charger that I use on boats when away from mains power. AA batteries take about a day to re-charge by solar. It is the display screen and flash that use the most power so if you can turn them off on your camera it will help.

Rather than trying to look for batteries that last long, I would go and get a camera that has rechargeable batteries. Even if you sell your current camera at a loss, you'll save money in the long run. You're right that cameras take a lot of energy and use batteries very fast. You'll spend a fortune if you don't get a rechargeable camera. If you must go with non-rechargeable batteries, then duracell is you're best bet, but they are expensive. Not sure if buying more of the cheap ones is ultimately better. You replace them more, but they cost a lot less.

Get yourself rechargeable batteries I went over three years buying batteries (did recycle, but hey) and always trying the 'newer, better, longer lasting' so and so battery and kept running into the same problem! Now I do know the flash KILLS your batteries and you should definately invest in a camera that has a low-light dial/option on it if you haven't already. My best and favorite camera was a Nikon and It rocked!! Unfortunately my screen broke and I waited too long to buy insurance (definately recommended for cameras over 100$) and now I'm left with a Kodak Easy Share camera I bought for 70$ right after Thanksgiving. Its a good camera, has low light option and I like that I never have to use the flash and actually when I do use it I get a poorer picture. I use rechargeable batteries and now can finally go a month without recharging them. Still hope for a Nikon again in the near future but it did use more battery power, just use less flash.

Hey! I know what that is like to just have them die out on you . I know when that happened to me I just went to the store and bought the cheapest kind LOL big mistake , because all it let me take was a few pics . So , Now I get a 4 back of engerize battery the one with the bunny , or durcelle aint so bad . This will last atleast a month if you take pics daily.

I have to say that personally I really do not like using items which require batteries to be replaced. It just makes such little sense economically and I always make sure that anything I do buy uses rechargeable batteries if possible. In answer to your question - I expect duracell will last the longest.

Use NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) Rechargeable batteries. They last longer. It's so much cheaper to buy them and invest in a good charger than to go through hundreds of alkaline AA's per year. My camera eats batteries like crazy too, it's the only way to go.

Get a lithium AA battery (well actually 2 or whatever) and if they dont last a long time then you should take it to the best buy geek squad.

Yes, it does eat up the battery. I tried charging my battery and then returned them inside my sony camera. I did not use it for two (2) weeks..when i attended a wedding, i took the camera out and brought it with me and did not bother to check the battery status, thinking that I have fully charged it weeks back and didn't use it. When I was in the ceremony, I turned it on to take photos, and surprised to see that that I only have 1 bar left!

The only sensible option for digital cameras is rechargable batteries. I have two sets of four AA 2400aH batteries - one set in the camera and one set in the case which I always recharge at the earliest opportunity. If I am going away on a trip and expect to take a lot of photos, I will also buy some Duracells in case of emergency. If your camera has an optical viewfinder, you can save a great deal of battery power by only using the screen when you need to review photos. Unfortunately, most digital cameras these days no longer have an optical viewfinder - a serious loss, in my view because viewing the image on the screen rather than holding the camera to your face makes the shot much more liable to camera shake and always uses more battery than if you are able to turn the screen off. Things that also use power are using the flash when it's not necessary, switching the camera off and on more often than you need to (because quite a lot of power is usually used in extending the lens), using the zoom function more than you need to and reviewing photos. The only way to manage these things is not to be overanxious about using battery but just to be sensible - especially about using the review function: most new camera owners spend much more time looking at what they have taken than actually taking pictures (which is only natural but does use battery)!

I have been there. It took me awhile to give in a invest in rechargeable batteries because there's always something else I could be buying..like clothes lol. I use Kodak rechargeables and their fine. I think even when your camera is off the battery drains if you use just normal non rechargeable batteries, idk maybe because of the timer that puts the little date stamp on your pics?? I have a set of 4 rechargables and thats enough, you let them charge all day and you always have a backup, its really not a pain--what's a pain is always having to buy more batterys, it adds up lol!

I'm not sure how well the Lithium kind of batteries are, but I think in the least Duracell does pretty nicely. On a somewhat different note, I would highly suggest buying rechargeable batteries and a battery charger. Fortunately my old camera came with rechargeable batteries and a charger (and since I have the same kind, I can still use it with my current camera). I have had the same pair of batteries for probably close to two years now. Needless to say, those batteries have saved me a fortune in batteries alone and has most likely paid for the camera in battery savings alone. Maybe even both cameras at this point. Even then, you won't have to run out and buy new batteries every so often.

I say buy rechargeable batteries. I had rechargeable batteries. My camera would stay charged for long periods of time. THen you just recharge the batteries. I paid 20 dollars for the batteries and the charger. Do the math. Regular batteries are about four dollars a pack i believe and you constantly replacing them is going to be costly. I recently replaced the batteries because rechargeable batteries do tend to get old as well but i replaced it after a year of use so that has saved me tons of money.

I do not have a digital camera myself, but my daughter takes her batteries out of the camera when she is not using it, to help with the batteries life. She said that the camera drains them even if it is not being used.

I really do no know which is the best as far as batteries is concerned. However, because I saw that the cameras (and the more they do the more batteries they eat) suck the battery dry quickly, I chose to purchase a camera that has a rechargeable battery. If at all possible I only buy electronics which use a rechargeable. I have a small digital camera but I have had it for about 5 years now and I only had to purchase a new rechargeable battery one time for it and it only cost around $30! That's a lot less than buying batteries all the time!