GETTING ACQUAINTED
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Tips for Prolonging Battery Life
• Use to turn off the flash when you are not using it (page
55).
• You can also use the power save settings (page 35) to pro-
tect against wasting battery power when you forget to turn
off the camera.
• You can also conserve battery power by using DISP to turn
off the monitor screen.
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Alkaline Battery Life
The actual life of alkaline batteries is affected by a variety of
factors, including the battery manufacturer, the amount of
time the batteries spend in storage before you use them,
temperature while you are recording, and photographic con-
ditions. As a rule, we recommend the use of lithium batteries
or Ni-MH batteries, which have longer lives than alkaline bat-
teries.
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Battery Life Guidelines
The battery life guideline values given below indicate the
amount of time at standard temperature (25
°
C (77
°
F)) until
power automatically turns off due to battery failure. They do
not guarantee that batteries will provide the amount of ser-
vice indicated. Low temperatures reduce battery life.
*
1 Continuous Recording Conditions
• Normal temperature: 25
°
C (77
°
F)
• Flash: Off
• Monitor screen: On
• Image recorded about every 10 seconds using the fol-
lowing operations: Zoom to full wide angle
Auto Fo-
cus
Zoom to full close-up
Auto Focus
Image
recording
— Recording one image per minute under the above
conditions reduces battery life to about one sixth of
that noted above.
*
2 Continuous Playback Conditions
• Normal temperature: 25
°
C (77
°
F)
• Scroll one image about every 10 seconds
Type of Operation
AA-size Alkaline
Batteries LR6
AA-size Lithium
Batteries FR6
AA-size Ni-MH
Batteries NP-H3
Continuous
Playback
*
2
180 minutes
320 minutes
180 minutes
Continuous
Recording
*
1
75 minutes
(460 shots)
180 minutes
(1130 shots)
90 minutes
(540 shots)
• The above values are approximations only.
• The above guidelines are based on the following battery
types:
Alkaline: MX1500 (AA) DURACELL ULTRA
Lithium:
Energizer
*
Battery life varies with brand.
• Battery life is greatly affected by how much you use flash,
zoom and other functions, and how long you leave power
turned on.
