AA batteries with the E-PL6

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

alexisgreat wrote:

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

Life's too short. I go out with a handful of batteries in my pocket. I never switch the camera off, I have auto review on, I use the LCD constantly for managing my settings , I chimp sometimes, When the battery life is getting low. I change the battery. I can take 100 pictures in a day. I go home put batteries on charge, some of them I estimate, have been charged 500 times +. And most importantly I don't worry.

Well, it's good to know your batteries go well beyond 500 charges! How old are they? You haven't even experienced any shortening of the time between charges?

I bet you dont even set the LCD to turn off if you dont use any of the buttons within 1 minute I have it set to that and the backlight turns off after 30 sec.

Difficult to say how old they are, I don't keep track but I've had G5,G6 and G7 which share the same battery so some might be 5 years old but average age is probably a couple of years.

No I don't set it to switch off. I find it incredibly irritating if it's not on when I want it.

The battery life does deteriorate both on OEM and third party batteries over time, but a long time. I have never stopped using one because of reduced life.

I think it should be around 10 yrs of useful life, my older batteries only last a couple hours.  Maybe batteries manufactured more recently have even more than 10 yrs useful life? OEM over third party of course.