Do any current Canon P&S use AA batteries?

A co-worker asked me to help him purchase a simple point & shoot camera for his wife. She will be traveling to Tibet and rechargeable batteries will not be practical. So, I'm wondering if anyone knows about any point & shoots still use AA's. My preference is always Canon but I'm also interested in looking at other brands.

Thanks!

---Sumodog

You need to look at the Canon website to see if anything they offer takes AAs. In my experience, Canon uses their own proprietary batteries, but they may have some P&Ss that use AAs.

Nikon sells P&S cameras that use AA batteries. I got one for our daughter a number of years ago. It burns through batteries fairly quickly but if that's what your co-worker needs, then so be it. For instance, the Nikon Coolpix L32 is $117 from B&H, and it takes AA batteries. Below is a link to a review of the L32. There may be better Nikons that use AAs. (Today all of the cameras I own are Canon, but I've owned Pentax and Nikon. I'll use whatever works best.)

http://www.imaging-resource.com …/nikon-l32/nikon-l32A.HTM

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Why are rechargeable batteries impractical in Tibet?

thanks for responding. we anticipate that there will some areas where electricity is not always available.

I would be looking for an external pack that can charge other devices. Maybe solar, maybe something that is rechargeable itself or maybe something that uses store bought batteries.

Something like that should be able to charge all kinds of devices.

Keep in mind that alkaline batteries will offer far less capacity than rechargeables in a camera, so you'll need to have multiple sets available for quick access. I had a friend who wouldn't buy rechargeables (it wasn't a case of not having electricity) and he wired up an enormous battery pack full of alkalines - which still didn't last as long as the NiMH cells would have.

Back when Canon still made one, I got one for my Daughter, who is just terrible at keeping anything charged!

That said, I think you are going down the wrong path, as yes you can find AA readily, but the number of shots they provide is crap.

There are VERY affordable 3rd party batteries for Canon 9and other brand) cameras that tend to be excellent. I'd say a better investment would be a number of these to keep you shooting where charging is not an option. In this case, you aren't forcing yourself to compromise the camera based on the battery.

This may be too late for the op, but I have an l20, a 10 mpx predecessor to the Nikon coolpix l32. I think not much has changed other than mpx, the optics and user interface look the same, the sensor is the same size. It runs on AA's, I have Rayovac Ni metal hydrides in it right now, but alkaline work fine.

My take is that it is an improvement to my much more modern cell phone camera, but no match to my g5x or 60d. Compared to my cell phone, it has a similar sized sensor, but is better in almost every other way. Optics are much better, esp of you have to zoom at all, focus is consistent, the best shot selector somewhat makes up for lack of image stabilization if you want to exclude its flash. In bright daylight to cloudy or open shade it does well. Sooc the images have low saturation and contrast compared to the cell phone, easily altered afterwards if you desire, and modern firmware may be different. Indoors, you quickly wish for a bigger sensor. Not much control on this camera, no real aperture adjustment.