Mayo wrote: Are you letting your batteries drain down 100% before charging them? If not this is why you may not be getting good batter life.
geoffellis wrote:
Mayo wrote: Are you letting your batteries drain down 100% before charging them? If not this is why you may not be getting good batter life.
This is bad advice. He shoots a D80 and D300. These cameras use a Lithium-Ion battery. This means that discharging 100% can actually cause problems. You may not be able to charge a fully discharged lithium-ion battery (theres a feature on most batteries that actually disable the battery if the internal voltage drops too low)
In fact, the best way to store them is at 40-60% charge. You can also charge as many times as you want. charging at 50% does not reduce battery life in any way. they have a fixed life cycle. charging at 50% 2 days in a row is still considered 1 charge cycle. same as if you charged at 80% 5 days in a row... its cumulative.
I myself use a D80 - and i have the same battery that i got with the camera i bought in early 2008, so im going up on 4 years of use. I dont have a ton of time, nor am i a professional, so i dont do any serious days of shooting more than once a month usually (although a single day ive been known to do 1200 shooting an event). In between use though i leave the battery in the camera. i wont usually wont even charge it before my next use if its still half full unless i plan on a very heavy day of shooting. otherwise i can spend a day shooting 600 photos with a half full battery and still have more than enough juice that im not even worried. this is if its a normal day... if its a really cold day (which can happen in canada lol) then its more of an issue. heck in march in Vancouver they have a week long celtic celebration... on a single charge i can photograph the entire weeks events (3k photos avg) on the same charge.
but anyways, ive shot about 25,000 photos in just under 4 years and the battery still performs wonderfully. no noticeable loss in performance... although depending on storage you can lose between 2-30% performance per year (2% is best case scenario, you cant avoid it, 30% if you treat the battery horrible).
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