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An excellent AA battery P&S with full manual controls

Started Mar 10, 2017 | User reviews thread
Humansvillian
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Re: An excellent AA battery P&S with full manual controls
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Battery life for alkaline batteries is shorter than for good NiMH rechargeable batteries, but the camera can use the cheap batteries when the owner wants to use it and doesn't have a charged up battery.

The newer cameras with their excellent lithium batteries only come with one battery.  The owner leaves the camera in a drawer, and six months later he wants to take photos and his battery is drained.

These are not problems for the enthusiast who has two spare batteries and uses his camera a lot.  But they are problems for the customer of an entry level point and shoot.

If the AA battery powered point and shoot owner gets into photography, he can go to just about any big grocery store or big box store and buy some really good 2300 milliamp heavy duty NiMH rechargeable batteries for only a few dollars.  He can't do that for the lithium camera batteries.

I already had an excellent Nikon S8100 "smart camera" before I bought my first SX 150 IS.  I even had extra lithium  batteries for it.  But I never used it except on Auto or Program, because it didn't have a PASM dial to tempt me to learn what PASM meant, and how those controls work.

If a camera maker came out with a simple, PASM dial equipped AA battery camera again, they should also package a short, simple, photography course with the camera, preferably online.

The idea would be to make a "gateway camera".

The absolute beginner needs every bit of help they can get.

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