GETTING ACQUAINTED

●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 service indicated. Low temperatures reduce battery life.

Type of Operation

Continuous

Continuous

Playback*2

Recording*1

 

 

 

AA-size Alkaline

180 minutes

75 minutes

Batteries LR6

(460 shots)

 

 

 

 

AA-size Lithium

320 minutes

180 minutes

Batteries FR6

(1130 shots)

 

AA-size Ni-MH

180 minutes

90 minutes

Batteries NP-H3

(540 shots)

 

*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

•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.

●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.

●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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