I recently got a new Kodak Digital Camera, and just like every other digital camera i’ve ever had, it chews up the entire set of batteries while left ‘off’ overnight. I go to use it the next day, and the batteries are completely dead.
Is this normal with digital cameras? Surely you wouldn’t have to remove the batteries from a digital camera after turning it off and not using it for a day…
And yeah, it was ‘off.’
Lmao.
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It depends.
If your camera is using a Li-ion battery, then no … they should hold their charge for weeks if not longer.
If you are using AA NiMH batteries, they do lose some power over time, especially if they were not charged before the camera was put a way.
There is some trickle of power going to the camera if for no other reason, to keep the clock running on-board the camera
It is possible that a camera has a short, and it drains the batteries. but that is unlikely. More likely, it is the type of battery you use. Digital camera manufacturers do not give any or little advice on this subject – at least i have not seen it.
You don’t say what kind of batteries you are using, so i will give you my experience, which I learned the hard way.
Alkaline batteries just don’t work well with digital cameras, and are single use. The load required is too great for alkaline. This happened to me on more than one camera, and I have read about lots of people having this problem on internet forums.
Lithium batteries are much better than alkaline, but very expensive and also single use. Too expensive when there is a far cheaper alternative which I now use and am amazed how well they work.
Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries are ok, but expensive and not as good as the ones I describe below. I have Nikon lithium-ion’s for my digital camera, but they were very expensive.
The successful batteries I use are NiMH, nickel metal hydride. This is not just the ordinary NiMH, these are the newly designed ones, for sale only in the last few years. There are still early version NiMH for sale, but not very good because they lose their charge over time. This is called self discharge. I was using this old version, and the self discharge was terrible.
The new design rechargeable NiMH have a very low self discharge, claimed to be 85 percent of the charge left after one year. As well, they are fine for the high load needed for digital cameras. I have used a set of Eneloop AA batteries and a Eneloop charger, plus several sets of Kodak NiMH AA’s also charging with the Eneloop charger. You may never have heard of Eneloop, but they are one of the leaders for this advanced battery, and are available at Costco for an amazing price. I got all mine at Wal-Mart in Dec. 2007, and the price was so inexpensive I bought just a few to try out, and went back for the rest a week later (now a total of 20 AA’s). Batteries of this type come pre-charged, and can be used right out of the package. I use them in my wireless mouse, camera, cd disk player, etc. I have a couple relatives also happily using these type.
The new batteries take a large number of pictures, over several weeks, without recharging, and sitting on the shelf in the camera between uses.
Check the following link. You may also find forums on the internet where this subject is discussed.