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12/08/2003 01:24:09 PM · #1 |
any issues with battery life that i should know about?
considering the purchase soon! |
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12/08/2003 01:29:45 PM · #2 |
Mine hasn't run out during a trip yet, it's got a very long life.
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12/08/2003 01:32:41 PM · #3 |
| mine has been INCREDIBLY long!! Ine thing you don't need to worry about with this camera. |
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12/08/2003 01:33:34 PM · #4 |
I agree. Lonnnnnngggg life.
My E-20 would last about 1/2 as long. |
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12/08/2003 01:49:06 PM · #5 |
make sure you fully charge it, and if you can let it trickle charge for a bit more time.
i bought a two year service plan that covers the battery if it stops working within that time.
seems to last a long time even w/o a card reader
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12/08/2003 02:21:06 PM · #6 |
| User manual of the 10D says 500-650 shots. I have no problem believing that. Lasts a long long time. |
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12/08/2003 02:26:49 PM · #7 |
bout the same for the 300d
if you aren't using the flash
and i dont know if that counts downloading them to the pc
with out a card reader...
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12/08/2003 03:15:19 PM · #8 |
Very long battery life per charge here too. Can always get the Battery Grip on Ebay for about $100 too.
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12/08/2003 03:57:17 PM · #9 |
Me too I find the battery life quite good. I always check the histogram of every shot I take but even then, the battery lasts a while. I have another battery that I bought from eBay for around $30Cdn that is not by Canon. Works just as well.
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12/08/2003 04:38:50 PM · #10 |
| I've been very impressed by the battery life. I usually get through 2 outings and that includes downloading to pc. |
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12/08/2003 04:43:22 PM · #11 |
How long hour wise? Is recharging quick also?
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12/08/2003 04:57:13 PM · #12 |
Wow.... hour wise. I'm really not sure. I just know I go crazy shooting and eventually the battery shows low. I shot over 140 pictures on Saturday and downloaded all those to the pc and still had battery left. I don't think that battery was fresh either. For charging time, I believe the manual says 90 minutes. I put it on the charger overnight typically so I'm not watching it.
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12/08/2003 10:05:35 PM · #13 |
I've used my camera non-stop for about 2 hours before, and the battery life didn't even show as half-way down on the little icon.
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12/08/2003 10:26:26 PM · #14 |
I ones used 2 full batterys to take 3200 pictures.
I did not use flash and did not view the pictures until in the computer.
It just lasts LOOOONG time |
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12/08/2003 10:39:48 PM · #15 |
Over two hours? Wow, I just might've found my new camera.
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12/08/2003 10:59:35 PM · #16 |
| I've never had any problem, and havent even found the need yet to by a second battery. It has always lasted me all day. EG 6 hours, on and off, with preview, 250 shoots. Then it only just went on to the low setting, so I could have used it longer. I bought mine back in sept, so a lot of use. |
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12/09/2003 03:02:20 AM · #17 |
I bought a Canon camera bag that included a battery, so I have 2, but I usually have one on the charger and the other in the camera.
For Saturday: I used it for an hour at a little league soccer game, an hour in the desert playing with the dogs and downloaded pictures which took over an hour and still had battery left. |
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12/09/2003 03:59:33 AM · #18 |
| Agreed. The battery life on it is really impressive. When I got the camera, I charged the battery, and it lasted through three outdoor shoots and all the tinkering I needed to do to learn the majority of the camera's features. I don't think you'd have any issues with power. :) |
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01/23/2004 03:06:41 PM · #19 |
I've only had one occassion when I had a problem, and there were some special circumstances. I had a fully charged battery before leaving Los Angeles before flying to Springfield Mo. When I arrived in Springfield I checked the camera at the hotel and found the battery fully discharged. I'm not sure what could have caused that to occur and it has never happened again.
I'm guessing I could easily get 400 pictures off one full charge. |
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01/23/2004 04:14:13 PM · #20 |
| I agree on great battery life but I bought a second canon battery and it took 3 times in the charger to get it to charge, would not go constant red. Once this was achieved it is as good as gold! |
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01/24/2004 03:20:51 AM · #21 |
I use the battery grip for the 10D (BG-ED3) with 2 batteries in it and I've shot with a model for over 3 hours with the camera on constantly (using the EX550 flash on the extended hot shoe cord) and I still had a lot of time left on the batteries. If you buy a 2nd battery, charge it and just carry it around with you then set your camera up to automatically shutoff after a couple of minutes the charge should last you all day and into the next. With autoshutoff I actually used my camera at Disney this fall w/out the battery grip and I never switched to the 2nd battery on any day; we got thousands of photos of our daughter and our friends' family over a week.
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01/24/2004 04:41:17 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by tfaust:
I used it for an hour at a little league soccer game, an hour in the desert playing with the dogs and downloaded pictures which took over an hour and still had battery left. |
One hour to download pictures?? That's loonnggg.. |
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01/24/2004 05:02:55 AM · #23 |
Battery life of the EOS 300D is perfect. Not eternal, but you can rely on it not to fail you in the middle of a couple big events. 3 birthday parties would be a good real-world-measure.
Yes, it takes a long while to download photos on the EOS 300D if you install the supplied camera driver.
But in Win XP you can ignore this and the download goes a LOT faster.
Drawback: some advance features like the auto-rotation will have no effect. The pictures only get rotated on the PC, not on the camera and without the canon driver, nothing happens, you get the shot but in the landscape orientation, no matter what the camera position was.
Still, I find that a very small price to pay for the enormous increase in download speed. Try it and let us know your opinion.
Message edited by author 2004-01-24 10:05:46.
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01/24/2004 05:32:41 AM · #24 |
you can purchase a card reader for about $20 US, and cut that hour into 5-10minutes...
although you need to be more aware of your organazation as the card reader wont remember which files you may have already DL'd where the canon software does.
for small amount of files i use canons software for a whole card full the card reader...
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01/24/2004 05:36:12 AM · #25 |
I use a card reader with the Canon software. This works well as the Canon software treats the cardreader the same way as the camera remembering which images have already been downloaded, autorotation etc.
Message edited by author 2004-01-24 10:36:32. |
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