However, like any battery, they have a limited life, and that's based on how many times they're recharged. In other words, it's not necessary to fully discharge a lithium-ion battery before charging it, but to get the longest life from a battery, only charge it when needed. Select Nikon D-SLRs use batteries that contain information communicated to the camera about the status of the battery being used.
Check your manual to see if your camera does so. Most D-SLR cameras use the more traditional battery level icons located on the camera's LCD screen that indicates when the battery is fully charged, partially charged, low battery or exhausted. In either case, make sure to check with the instruction manual for complete details on how to read and access these important information screens. The best way to avoid charging your battery unnecessarily is to have at least two batteries.
That way when the battery in the camera gets low on power, you can swap it out for a fresh one. Having the batteries labeled by date purchased makes it easier to keep track of them and offers a quick indication of age. Heat and cold are hard on batteries so try not to leave them in the car in summer or winter.
If shooting in cold conditions keep that spare battery inside your coat, close to your body to keep it warm. When the first battery gets low, move it inside your jacket to warm up and replace it with the fresh one.
Alternating batteries this way will help you keep shooting even in frigid conditions. But I got my first digital about When I got it I also got a spare battery. I don't use it all that much the past couple years, since I got my D but, I;m still using the original battery that came with it and the same spare battery. Like gary, I also run the battery down before charging.
I don't know if it's still true or not but, battery's used to have memory. That is if you didn't run it down and charged it, you'd shorten the battery considerably. Might not be true anymore but, doesn't hurt to run them down. I always carry the spare battery with me when I'm out with a camera. I've never had one go bad and some of mine are 4 years old. Uplander wrote: I've never had one go bad and some of mine are 4 years old You should knock on wood to play it safe!
Raymond II Lone Wolf. Their life span is till they die. I still have the battery that came with my D in , and it is still going strong. But you also have to consider that I bought two additional batteries as backups at the same time. Show Me Landscape Photography Tips. Portrait Photography Tips.
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Promaster makes off-brand batteries for digital cameras. Be sure to safeguard your batteries in cold weather. Long exposure shots like these light trails wear down your battery more quickly.
It was working fine at that time. As far as I know it is still inside the wall. One, made in November , has pretty much "died" and has been retired. It will still take a charge but will only last a handful of shots in one of the cameras. The "recharge performance" display in the camera's menu shows a single red bar for this battery.
The other two are still perfectly functional at slightly reduced capacity from when they were new. The manufacturing dates stamped on them are January and February , respectively. They do show only two out of three green bars on the "recharge performance" display viewed from my Canon cameras.
Of the ten third party LP-E6 batteries I have bought between and One of two purchased way back in April was lost when a velcro flap on a camera bag loosened and came open during a night shoot in a large natural area.
The rest of them all still work well enough to stay in regular rotation in my regularly used cameras. They all still show the full three green bars in the "recharge performance" display. The three older 'Maximal Power' third party batteries, all bought at one time or another in , will power any of my active cameras, but the 5D Mark III and 7D Mark II will refuse to show serial numbers, exact remaining percentage, or recharge performance for these batteries.
Michael C Michael C k 9 9 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I'd be super curious to see actual frame count on your older batteries vs. There's enough variation from one shooting day to the next with the same batteries due to differences in amount of LCD usage, IS, how often and for how long the camera is kept in 'metering active' mode before each shot, etc.
The only real way to do an empirical comparison would be to use identical cameras with identical lenses in the exact same way side by side. They also have a limited number of cycles; again as a general rule, I still get well over half the capacity of Canon EP-L6 batteries that are anywhere from years old than I got when they were brand new.
No, Li-ion does not loose capacity over time. The loss is insignificant over time. They loose capacity when cycled many times. Overmind actually lithium batteries corrode themselves. They indeed age. Pretty anything corrodes in time, but this is not too relevant. Newer ones are of lower quality though. For example, Sony's mAh G8 series are nearly dead mAh at most after long time storage while the Sony mAh G5s still have over mAh after the same period. Note that in a battery, things can be different.
The actual circuit can partially or completely drain them in the case of some manufacturers example: Makita's power tools drain and kill the 1st pair of cells. The actual practical in-use lifetime is determined by these factors: number of cycles operating temperature overcharge and overdrain Cycles: Li-ion does lose capacity the more cycles it has.
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