I've tried duracell and energizer, and they both don't work for long. Digital cameras are indeed huge battery hogs. I even purchased rechargable batteries, and a energizer recharger for the batteries, and the batteries only last for 3 to 5 minutes, and then die. I just wanted to know what the best batteries for digital cameras are.
I own a Samsung s630 6.0 mega pixels digital camera if that helps anything.

A: Digital cameras do, indeed, draw enormous amounts of power.

The LCD screen without doubt is the biggest user of electricity. If your camera has a viewfinder that you can peep through instead of using the battery hog LCD screen, use it and get hours of extra use from your camera.

Reduce amount of time that the LCD stays on in "review" mode after taking a picture. A few seconds is all that should be needed. I recommend turning it off completely! Don't...

Recently I was doing a show for my school and massive feedback occurred. Next thing you know the mic stopped working because the batteries didn't work. The batteries were brand new at the beginning of the show. The broken batteries were replaced, and the mic worked again. All other mics worked fine with the new batteries till the end of the show.

My question is, could the feedback have anything to do with the mic not working/batteries being dead.

A: Yes, most certainly.

In normal use, with no sound into the microphone, the current drawn from the battery is quite low.

With sound into the microphone the current increases.

I both cases the internal circuit is simply an amplifier driving a very low powered transmitter.

When acoustic feedback occurs, the microphone is part of an oscillatory loop and the current taken from the battery increases dramatically.

I bought a Cannon 590is and am having a lousy time because of the battery life. Even with new alkaline batteries, they don't last to long. I returned the camera until I find out if this a common problem, and if a set of NiMH batteries will do the trick. Has any else had this problem? What woud be the best batteries to use? Thanks, curlycuejoyce.

A: Alkaline batteries are the worst type of battery to use because they don't hold enough charge to run a power hungry device such as a digital camera, for very long. Use them and you're just throwing money down the drain (or adding to landfill).

Ni-MH recharegeable batteries are much more cost effective. You charge them, they drain...so you just recharge them again. Buying high capacity Ni-MH are best (something like 2500-2700mAh).

They will need to be...

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