My Kodak digital camera V530 gets only 15 shots before the battery goes
dead. The camera takes excellent pictures, but has no battery life. Any
ideas?
In this excerpt from
Answercast #29, I look at a camera with a battery that won’t hold a
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I’ve got a Kodak Easyshare M853. My battery would give me about 18 shots. Somehow I managed to set the flash to *always on*, even in bright daylight. Amazing how fast the battery would run down.
use duracell or kodak charging cells which will cost u 2 cells at 250 Rs
I had a Kodak and now a sony which uses disposable batteries. Every time I went to use the camera, the batteries were dead. I started taking the batteries out and just putting them in when I wanted to take a pic and that seems to work much better. Not sure if there is something that is using the battery even when the camera is off, but if I didn’t use the camera for a week or more, and the batteries were left in, the batteries would be dead.
Hi, I have a Panasonic Lumix that uses Li-ion batteries specific to it. Over a few years, the two batteries I acquired for it had also lost the ability to hold a charge for more than ~6-10 pics. I tried cleaning ALL contact points with isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip….the contacts on the battery, the contacts on the charger and the contacts in the camera. AND IT WORKED WELL!!! ….maybe not to brand new status but certainly very acceptable change life. Before throwing those in recycling, give this a try. Idea came from my cordless phone booklet.
All rechargable batteries will loose the charge but it shouldn’t happen that quick.
Maybe bad batteries; maybe bad camera – it’s possible.
had the same problem years ago with a olympus film camera,sent it to the manufacturer and was told it was the camera,it was an old camera and not worth fixing.
If your camera uses GPS tagging, the battery may be on all the time.
I have been through a few camera batteries in my time before eventually discovering that the more you pay the longer it last!
I also have had this problem with camera batteries loosing charge. I solved the problem by removing the batteries when not using the camera. It seems cameras use some charge even when turned off. It is somewhat of a hassle to reset the date and time every time I want to use the camera. But less of a hassle than not being able to take a picture I want because the batteries are dead!
Also, I have found Rayovac rechargeable batteries hold their charge longer than most other rechargeable batteries, both in the camera and just setting unused.
Rechargeables will lose (not “loose”) capacity the more often they are recharged before being fully discharged. In other words, don’t put partially discharged batteries in the charger – use the camera’s “discharge” function (my 2 Fujifilm Finepixes have it at least) to drain them before recharging. Obviously, having 2 sets of batteries makes this easier to manage.
Further, if I may so crudely paraphrase Leo, RTFM! Some settings like face recognition/detection, sport/tracking auto-focus and similar magic tricks come at the cost of a continuous high use of power. Only turn them on when you know you need them – not just “in case” (but know where to find them in the menu!).