Digital Camera Batteries

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 by: Jakob Jelling

Every device needs a driving force to operate, just as
every living thing needs a heart to keep it alive! Basically electric
power does this job for any kind of devices nowadays. Similarly for any
digital camera too, a good battery is necessary in order to ensure an
excellent performance from it as long as possible. Being such a crucial
task as if searching for a good heart for a human being, perhaps the
most tedious thing about digital cameras is the quest for their battery
consumption and thereby finding a suitable one for any particular one.
Yet a basic overview regarding this so important component of a digital
camera makes the ventures of the users somewhat less complicated and
makes life easier with a proper selection of the battery!

Leaving aside the ever power thirsty LCD screens and
flashes, the digital cameras themselves exhaust batteries much faster
than film cameras, due to their state of the art electronic designs and
intricate circuitry. Many digital cameras run from AA cells, around 4,
and can even drain a set of alkaline cells in less than 1 hour of
working! For example, the Kodak DC120 draws about 210mA during start or
switch ON, but progresses to around 1.3A with the association of the
LCD fully working and can go ahead to about 2.1A while picture taking
and after it too.

With all these nightmares regarding the batteries of the
digital cameras, it is worthwhile to analyze and reveal some of the
available batteries for the digital cameras in an effort to explore
area of power consumption in this fantastic device. Coming to first one
of these, like its great name suggests, it is the Li-ion (Lithium Ion).
It is one of the latest cell types available to digital camera users.
This has many advantages to its credit. It is light in weight and
currently available for many commercial uses and thus being so the
Li-ion (Lithium Ion) battery type is becoming quite popular. This has
an added advantage of being able to endow with more power than any of
the other main cell types available. It is also free from the problems
of memory effect, hat some battery types do have, and maintenance is
least in this type of battery. These are but real goodies about this
Li-ion (Lithium Ion) battery. Yet it has one major disadvantage, that
is, the price is usually significantly higher than conventional
batteries, due to its sophisticated design and technology.

Coming to the next one in the line, the NiMH (Nickel
Metal Hydride). This is a battery that is perhaps the most frequently
under use for not only digital cameras, but also for other
sophisticated devices like laptop computers! This has the advantage of
being cheap in price due to the fact that it incurs cheap manufacturing
costs, and thus a choice for many users! But this does have the
problems of memory effect, and much more maintenance and care is
required while handling this kind of battery.

Another such battery is the NiCAD (Nickel Cadmium) Battery. This
is perhaps belonging to one of the older cell types generally available
for older laptops and electronic devices. These batteries or cells have
an aptitude for handling high power loads, and therefore is more
frequently found in handy power tools and devices that require more
amounts power to work efficiently and perfectly. Yet again, these
batteries too have the problems of memory effect, and much more
maintenance and care is required while handling this kind of battery.

Apart from the different batteries themselves, the
selection should be based upon the charging techniques and the
different charges available for all these digital camera batteries.
Latest batteries come handy with charging free techniques too! So care
needs to be taken in this area also, depending upon the requirements of
the user.

With all the vivid conversation regarding the hearts of
the digital cameras, their batteries, it is expected for every person
going through the lines to have grabbed a significant amount of
information in dealing with the intricacies of the purchase, and
thereby also augment the ability of the person in using such a
sophisticated device as a digital camera with a proper battery!

By Jakob Jelling

http://www.snapjunky.com

About the Author

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.snapjunky.com. Visit his digital camera guide and learn how to take better pictures with your digicam.

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