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How To Make Your Digital Camera Batteries Last Longer

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How To Make Your Digital Camera Batteries Last Longer

Mark Comon (Vice President, Paul's Photo, Torrance, CA) gives expert video advice on: How do I make my digital camera's batteries last longer?

How do I make my digital camera's batteries last longer?

It's hard to make the batteries in your digital camera last longer, because the battery you have in your camera lasts as long as it's going to last. You can turn the LCD off, you can use the flash less, you can zoom in and out less and you can review the pictures less on the back. My answer to that question is, though, always have an extra battery charged, so battery power is not an issue for your digital camera. I don't want to compromise my picture taking and my style of photography because I'm out of battery. Get an extra battery, get it charged up, and be ready to go, so you can take as many pictures as you want. If you're going to take hundreds and hundreds of pictures a day on your digital camera, it may take three or four batteries to get though the day. Batteries are cheap - forty or fifty bucks. You're going on this big vacation, so buy an extra battery for your digital camera and get it charged. You're going to be happier in the long run.

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  1. tastycorpse

    Mark Comon didn't really make much of an effort here. One of the most common reasons why batteries don't last long is because they are recharged too often without the need to. If they are charged all the way, some rechargers will continue to trickle in electricity. Leaving them in extreme heat, like inside of a car, or the cold, will likewise lower the battery life. Another way to save cam's batteries is to get a separate lamp light that you can connect to it, which uses either AC or cheaper AA batteries (which you can buy rechargeables for instead!) instead of your cam's. Certainly the only good thing in the video is that he states to get a second battery for back up, but... Mark then resumes to tell us to get a life. How professional. $40 or 50 bucks sounds like a lot for a battery, must be at his store. Not shopping at Paul's Photo, that's for sure.