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t3i short battery life in video mode

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Questions thread
STR54 Regular Member • Posts: 297
Re: t3i short battery life in video mode

jralbert wrote:

In normal still shooting get very long battery life - hundreds of shots - with t3i. Using off-brand batteries reliably for years.

With desire to shoot some video w/cam, just very surprised to find battery life is less than a minute with two different and fully charged batteries. Camera dies before video file can even be saved. The battery is completely exhausted and camera won't turn on until battery is recharged.

Canon support can't help because camera is out of support range.

Question is whether anyone else on the forum experienced same issue and how did it get resolved.??

thnx

(a followup question is whether the newer txi series such as the t7i will auto focus during video shooting which the t3i will not)

I have done very little video shooting with my t3i but from what I did experience my camera did not eat thru batteries like yours is.  If you check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PVZu4JDCvc it gives a pretty good idea of the movie AF capability of the t7i. Hope it helps.

Mike

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