6D: my little field review

Started 4 months ago | Discussion thread
Philippe Castagna
Forum MemberPosts: 96
Like?
Re: GPS battery drain really that bad?
In reply to Brad Evans, 4 months ago

Brad Evans wrote:

Hi...

Thanks for the excellent review!

The GPS draining the battery 1% per hour doesn't seem too bad to me; ie, for example, after shooting for 5 hours, the battery having 5% less charge.

Just wanted to make sure I correctly interpreted what you wrote.

Also, I think you can adjust the GPS' update rate. Do you happen to know if a longer update interval influences battery drain much?

Thanks...

............
Brad
Urban photoblog: http://www.citysnaps.net
.

First of all I'm happy that all of you appreciate my little review and thank you for your messages.

Brad,

1%/hour is within the best scenario with an update every 5mn and without the tracking logger activated.

Also, I do not have any compare as I never used a stand alone GPS, but I find that inside my house, or in general any building, the GPS doesn't lock easily. Actually sometimes it doesn't lock at all. And in this case the power consumption increase. It's really not I function that I recommend to leave on all the time.

Without the GPS on I can do around 1000 shots but with the GPS on I down around a little bit more than half of that (500-600 shots).

best regards,.

--
Philippe

Reply   Reply with quote   Complain
Post (hide subjects)Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark post MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow