Energizer battery suckage. A75. Beating a dead horse

[link26]

Recently, the "change batteries" message has been popping up on my lcd more frequently than when I first bought the camera.

The message even appears when I put in a freshly charged set of Energizer 2200mah batteries.

I have to press the power button several times before the camera finally turns on.

was there ever a fix for this? what gives. This thing is annoying.:evil: is it my batteries, or the camera?

[thunderstang]

i am using rayovac nimh batterys and take alost of pictures at a time and have never even seen the change battery light flash on my camera. perpaps the batterys are faulty?

[jrobert]

As another quick check, try a set of brandy-new fresh alkalines in it and see if you get different results. That should help distinguish a battery problem from a camera problem. My camera - A70 - runs so long on alkalines that I don't even own rechagables.

-jeff-

[kaido]

I just got an A75 and some 2500mAh Energizers. Been using it for half a week and it still hasn't given me any battery trouble (this is with the LCD on all the time, too!). Hopefully it's just your batteries. My mom's Kodak EasyShare camera eats batteries like candy. I'm so glad the A75 gets better battery life!

[Bodryn]

My A70 has gotten over 400 photos on a single set of alkalines. So far I haven't bothered to get rechargeables; have taken over 6300 photos with it. It helps if you minimize use of the LCD screen and avoid turning it on and off between shots. The Canon A series is known for efficient use of batteries.

[Moppie]

They are very efficant!

I just spent 8 hours shooting a wedding, and the presents opening the next day, on 1 full charge of batteries, and 1 set on about a half charge.
Thats 256 full res photos, one movie, almost all with the LCD, and many with the flash, and prehaps a total of 4-5 hours of shooting/reviewing/operating time, not incudling downloading the images to three computers.

I run out of memory before I run out of power.

[RockOne]

How often have the batteries been charged ?. Batteries will lose their charging efficiency after a period of use (ie. a lot of recharge cycles).
Also what temperatures are you using the camera in ? . Cold temperatures can cause the batteries to drain at a more rapid rate than warmer temperatures.

[Moppie]

Batteries will lose their charging efficiency after a period of use (ie. a lot of recharge cycles).


Modern Ni-MH batteries actualy beomce more efficant after long use and lots of recharges, they don't begin to age for at least 12months of regular use, and Iv got much longer than that out of a set.


But he deffinitly needs to try another set of batteries in there, that will tell right away if its the batteries or the camera that have gone bad.

[link26]

actually, i have found that the batteries are fine.

In order to turn on the camera in one try, I have to point the lens to the ground while pushing the power button. almost every other position will not work, oddly.

looks to me like a camera glitch.... or maybe just plain physics...which I know neither of.