Subj : Re: Nimh Batteries
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Jan 12 2025 15:44:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> The rechargeable batteries that come with cameras are crap, in my
>> experience -- don't last at all (200 shots if you're lucky, which is
>> nothing with a digital camera), and go flat really fast if they get even
>> a little bit cold. Some of them are really expensive, and the
>> aftermarket batteries are even worse crap.
> 
> I have had an opposite experience.  I, like probably most people, travel
> during the warmer months.  I have never had an issue with them getting
> cold, but when they get warm they like to swell up.  I actually got plenty
> of time/shots out of the batteries that came with cameras until heat
> eventually got to them.

Since I live in the Northern Wastes and regularly have cause to take 
winter photos, I got a camera supposedly specific to use in cold 
conditions. It's a Fuji and it takes a little flat lithium battery. 
Which does not like temps below about 40 degrees; it goes flat fast 
enough you can watch the rating fall. Goes down to maybe 50 shots, which 
is nothing with a digital camera.

When it's warm it's good for (supposedly) 285 shots, but rarely makes it 
that far. When it's cold, good luck.

The official Fuji battery costs $45 (for a $140 camera). Aftermarket 
batteries are about half that, and last about a third as long, and are 
even more cold-sensitive.

I've basically given up on the battery and power it with a Pocket Juice 
instead. The Pocket Juice is much better in the cold, and lasts way 
longer. The problem is the charge socket is inside the card-and-battery 
compartment, because it's supposed to be a waterproof camera. So I have 
to use it with the card door hanging open. Someday it's going to catch 
on something and break off.

Well, it may be waterproof, but the first time it got cold, it developed 
condensation spots, which show up as tons of white bubbles on the image 
when the lighting is right. It should have been nitrogen-filled, or at 
least had an absorptive pad in there, but evidently not.
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