How long does the battery for time and date last? My SX100 hasn't died after 6 years
1411713
It depends upon the type of batteries you use and the number of pictures you take as well as how many times you have reviewed your pictures. I never have gone more than 6 months without replacing batteries in my SX120.
1411714
I haven't had mine that long, but my wife has a similar one and it has never gone bad.
22810
As long as the batteries are installed, date and time remain. However, this is my secondary camera (only used in wet environments) so I do have to reset it when I put batteries back in for each use.
1886782
Good long time. I don't take too many pics at one time, maybe 10 max. If I don't take any for a while, the battery is still good two months later. Then I re-charge just to be sure.
1723495
There is a battery life indicator. As far as how many photos I don't know. But if you use the flash and the internet and playback you decrease the length of the charge. It is always best to have a backup battery as they tend to run out of power at the worst time. I'm very happy with this camera. My wife has the pre internet version so I was familiar with it. I just wish they both used the same battery
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I just realized that you're comparing the older SX100 - not the newer SX110 - to the SX120. So my points above is worthless. It only compares the 110 to the 120.You are correct, I only tried that on Canon's. Canon cameras that use their own proprietary battery has a battery meter, and the ones using AA does not.Another upgrade from the SX110 is that you can see more thumbnails at a time.
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The battery life has been good for me. I bought the camera right before vacation and took many pictures over the course of a week. I believe I recharged the battery daily but the battery never died. I just wanted a full battery for each day since I was taking so many pictures. However, I've only used the camera sporadically since so I'm not sure how the battery life would be now if I was using it as much as I was when I first bought it.
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The GF1 had great battery life for me. I could shoot between 300 and 400 pictures on a single charge. That's with the genuine Panasonic battery. You might get less shots with an generic battery or a battery than is getting old. I now use a Panasonic G6 and it does not have as good of battery life.
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Bob, I have had my camera for about 3 weeks. But I would say it all depends on the way you use it. For me it last all day taking picture around Disney. Then I charge the battery every night. Hope that helped.
688931
AA Only and sadly the "internal battery" which keeps the camera date/time, burned out for me a little over a year after I bought the camera and is NOT cov'd by Warranty. I wrote to Canon and it can be sent in for a battery replacement, but will cost at LEAST $100, plus shipping, which is crazy!! I'm SO disappointed, as I like the date feature, but NOW I have to set the date and time EVERY time I turn on the camera! It's pathetic that this was not designed to last a LOT longer....! No more Canon's for me!!
2019227
The battery life really depends on how much you use the zoom feature. If you zoom a lot...it eats up your battery life. On average I get about 200 to 400 pictures on one set of batteries. You can use rechargeable ones...but they don't last any longer. You should check out the new camera they are going to release at the end of March. The SP-100....it has a bunch of new features a 50X zoom and is only about $100 dollars more than this camera and it will have a cell phone type battery that will last much longer. I have preordered one!
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The Battery Life has been great for me. I used it on vacation and regularly took over 100 pictures per day on a single charge. However, the camera did need to be charged daily to ensure that it would last the whole day when taking that many pictures.
96809
The manual and the reviews say that it should last twice that much...are you doing something else besides shooting?..I mean, like playing with the settings, reviewing every shot longer than usual...if you are only taking pics, it's doesn't seem right, although having an extra battery is always recommended..
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As you know, the answer depends on what exactly you're using it for. If you're just taking snap shots without all the art features, or just a bit of video here and there, then for me the battery lasts for weeks. However, if you're out doing HD 1080 filming, which I do often, then I'll go through a battery every two to four days with over an hour worth of clips to show for it (with image stabilizer off & not using the zoom). However, when I do use the built in image stabilizer for video and pic taking as well as zoom, I only get about 30 min worth of video. When my battery is finally drained, it takes about three to four hours to recharge. As you know, the answer depends on what exactly you're using it for. If you're just taking snap shots without all the art features, or just a bit of video here and there, then for me the battery lasts for weeks. However, if you're out doing HD 1080 filming, which I do often, then I'll go through a battery every two to four days with over an hour worth of clips to show for it (with image stabilizer off & not using the zoom). However, when I do use the built in image stabilizer for video and pic taking as well as zoom, I only get about 30 min worth of video. When my battery is finally... » Read More As you know, the answer depends on what exactly you're using it for. If you're just taking snap shots without all the art features, or just a bit of video here and there, then for me the battery lasts for weeks. However, if you're out doing HD 1080 filming, which I do often, then I'll go through a battery every two to four days with over an hour worth of clips to show for it (with image stabilizer off & not using the zoom). However, when I do use the built in image stabilizer for video and pic taking as well as zoom, I only get about 30 min worth of video. When my battery is finally drained, it takes about three to four hours to recharge. « Show Less
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I just bought my Sx110 IS yesterday--and after taking about 15 pictures and trying out the video, I got the battery low warning. I can only hope that the problem is with the batteries being old. According to my manual, I should get 140 images and 5 hours of playback time with them. The only other batteries they recommend in the manual are AA-size NiMH-3AH. I'd like to use Lithium batteries, but I'm worried that they are not listed in the manual as OK. I see that Canon Chick uses them, what about the rest of you?
1885332
I don't know an exact amount of time, but if it's of any help, I used it to shoot weddings and it never died on me. So turning it on and off sporadically for 8 hours is not a problem. I loved this thing, but I broke the plastic hot-shoe part, and now it's useless. If you baby that plastic mount, it's worth ever penny.
1105411
Lasts very little. In my 8Gb card I believe I should be able to fit about 74min of HD movie in MP4, but the battery won`t last anywhere near that. I still have to do some further testings, but my guess is that it lasts about 25~35 minutes. Since I haven`t done any tests with the camera only shooting movies, I am not sure about these values, it`s just a rough guess. Anyway, I find that the biggest problem is that it only warns you that the battery is about to end when it is already over, so you don`t get any extra seconds once the battery sign starts blinking (missed some great shots because of that). I carry two batteries with me and I am buying a third one, simply because this camera deserves it (video quality is superb and photo quality is good), I am overall happy with the camera. You just have to adapt yourself to change the batteries more frequently.
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I've read that it's up to year, but I suppose that depends on the settings you use...if you're shooting video clips and have it set to very sensitive, you're going to get a much shorter life. So far it's met my expectations for about 2 months of use. We'll see.