Subj : Re: Nimh Batteries
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Jan 13 2025 09:48:00

> > 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.

I have not tried taking may (any?) photos in the cold so that is probably
the only reason I have not experienced the issue.  Most of my colder trips
were before I got the camera in question.

> 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.

That sounds sort of like the setup I had to use when my camera battery went
bad and I really needed the camera... I was visiting the transportation
museum in St Louis that day.  Luckily I have a decent USB power bank that
could power the camera and, luckily, the socket is not in the compartment.

That is the first time I ever used that power bank.  I took it with me as
an afterthought and don't leave home with the camera without it now.

> 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.

Yeah, that doesn't sound so waterproof to me.  :(

Mike

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