Discharging Batteries

could somone tell me the best way to discharge a battery?

I recently bought a couple of replacement NB-1L's and it says to fully charge and discharge the new batteries
3-5 times to condition them properly.

my old batteries were never conditioned and are garbage.

they only get 20 shots before going dead.

this new battery took over 200 pictures with flash and display before it died.

Is there a way to do it without snapping shots?

I don't wanna burn out my camera & flash setting up a $30 battery.

With my S200, I put it in "continuous show" mode until it ran down. I don't think just displaying shots on the LCD will wear any part of the camera out. I think it took about a half hour or so, but I'm not sure how discharged the battery was.

Good luck!

If I'm not wrong NB-1L is already Lithium. So you don't have to discharge this battere, but it is good if you charge the battere after its power really dead, but if you have to charge it while it has maybe a half power, you can charge it.

so after conditioning the first time,
there is no need to discharge the battery completely?

I thought that was the reason my originals had the
"memory effect" thing?

Marley, the answer is yes.
If your batteree is ni-cd or metal, you should dis-charge the batteree, but if it's already lithium you can use it or charge it although your batteree's power is not dead yet.