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I have two digital camera. When I got my first I went through the
alkaline AA bateries quite quickly. Ever since I have been using non
rechargeable lithium AA in my Olympus D-360 and in my new C-740 and
been getting very good performance. I do not have the camera on for
hours, but will go out to the park, to the children's, etc. and take 30
to 40 pictures at a time. I am getting 4 to 5 months on one set of
Lithium non- rechargeables in the way I use the cameras.

When people say negative things about AA are they talking about the non
rechargeable lithium or alkaline?

George Preddy wrote:

> "Steven M. Scharf" <> wrote in message news:<vqfFc.2478$ ink.net>...
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>>"Foster Blake" <> wrote in message
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>>>I've gone through all the gnashing of teeth everyone else has over
>>>digital camera battery consumption, and after missing a rare shot have
>>>reached the limit of my patience. Without having to resort to using a
>>>camcorder to record all things digital, is there a camera manufactured
>>>to use the kind of serious batteries the camcorders are using?
>>
>>AA batteries are especially poorly suited for digital cameras. You won't
>>find a single recent higher end camera that uses AA batteries, and even many
>>of the lower end cameras now have Li-Ion rechargeables. Li-Ion rechargeables
>>are cheap, if you buy aftermarket batteries, and if you have a camera from
>>Nikon or Canon.
>
>
> CRV3s are Li-on, which is why an AA solution is so far superior to any
> other option. Proprietary batts are not serious players in this
> market,way too expensive and way too short lived.

In article <AmDFc.185225$>,
Keith Nuttle <> wrote:
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> When people say negative things about AA are they talking about the non
> rechargeable lithium or alkaline?

There are a lot of options with a camera that takes AA size batteries.
CRV3, rechargeable RCRV3, NIMH, alkaline, etc. Most of these are
readily available anywhere, and very inexpensive, compared to the
proprietary batteries.
A good place to learn about this:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/nimh_batteries.html
Enjoy,
NB

"bagal" <> wrote in message
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> I thought that press pro photographers used a hip mounted battery pack?
>
> Or was that for the flash?
>
> dB

I used to use a battery pack for my 540EZ until NiMH became popular. It's a
lot easier carrying a couple extra sets of them than that heavy battery
pack. Of course, I haven't used the 540EZ in several years now since it's
not very compatible with Canon DSLR.

Mark