subject: Maintenance of Digital Camera Battery [print this page] Do you know how to maintain digital camera battery, so as to prolong the battery life? Do you know how to save power when you think your digital camera an electricity-guzzler? This article will answer your questions.
1. How to Charge Camera Battery?
(1) Please read manual carefully! Different batteries have their different features, for example, some Ni-MH battery should be charged fully for about 14 hours before first use, whilst 6 hours is favorable for Li-ion battery. Hence, charging the battery according to standard time and procedures in manual is very important, especially for a green hand. Many useful instructions will tell you how to use digital camera battery safely and correctly, and how to avoid incorrect operations may harm to your battery.
(2) Charge the battery timely when indicates low-power. Don't use camera continuously until power off.
2. How to Store Camera Battery?
(1) Please remove the battery from the camera in time if you won't use digital camera for a long time and keep it in a regular place.
(2) Keep the battery clean and dry with soft cloth. Stay the connectors of battery away from corrosive chemical liquid and metal objects, such as key, necklace and metal buckle in your handbag or belt, because the metal things will cause short circuit.
(3) Keep the battery with electricity, because battery has the characteristic of the self-discharging. When the power in battery is not enough, overdischarging will affect the battery life-span. Using the battery once or twice every month, which is favorable to the maintenance of battery.
3. How to Use Camera Battery?
Don't mix the new and old batteries together and don't mix batteries with different types, which will shorten the battery life.
How to save power of digital Camera battery?
The best way to save power of digital Camera battery is to avoid unnecessary functions and actions, which may drain battery power, such as flashlight, focusing and continuous shooting. Here is some advice for you.
1. Don't use electricity-guzzling flashlight in the daytime, if you are not a photographer or not critical on taking photos. I think the light in the daytime is bright enough for taking photos.
2. Reduce avoidable focusing is a good way of saving power. Regulate the shooting distance by walking forward or backward to replace automatic zoom function.
3. Don't always stop to check the lighting and exposure of each photo in playback mode after shooting every photo, which will drain battery power.
4. Don't press shutter key half way down if you won't take any photos. The action of "pressing" will wake up other related components to get ready for shooting.
5. Use regular viewfinder instead of LCD viewfinder when you compose and view photos. Many cameras usually have a regular and an LCD viewfinder. Shutting down the LCD one is power-saving.
6. Use less continuous shooting and video recording. the dynamic photos or videos are saved via built-in cache, which is power-consuming too. Besides, if you want to shoot a moving object, just wait at the point when the object gets close to the point instead of following the moving object all the way.
Summary:
As an important accessory, digital camera battery will directly affect user shooting experience. Although the life-span of digital Camera battery largely depends on the quality in itself, the correct maintenance will prolong the battery life. We hope the advice above enables you to enjoy your shooting without being disturbed by low-power.
