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I noticed it was missing while unpacking onboard ship. Oh no, now what: seven days ahead, on vacation and no battery charger for my camera. I had even payed extra for a cabin with a deck so I could set up the tripod to take photos while cruising down the coast. So I ran down and checked with the ship photo department, maybe they could help - "No. We use Oly systems." So I returned to our cabin disgusted with myself. I had already used the camera for a few shots just driving down to the port and visiting my son in LA.

Cameras always have limitations - there must be a workaround. I checked, it still showed full charge. So i'll just do the best with what I have. I reduced the brightness on the screen and the preview time to minimum and set the auto shutdown to 2 min. Well it worked, the batteries lasted the entire trip. I was careful to shut down immediatly after each photo and I didn't use the camera as much as I normally would have; but, at least it lasted and I got most of what I intended photograph. Actually I downloaded my 1 gig card and the 512 backup several times. I shot raw, a few hundred photos.
Thumbs up to Canon, eight days on vacation with a single charge. D60 W/grip.
A few photos here: http://homepage.mac.com/sbrowns1/PhotoAlbum3.html

Steve
I had to move up when I couldn't get flash bulbs for the Brownie anymore.
http://www.pbase.com/stevebrown
 
Hmmm, are you stopping anywhere in port with a camera shop or a Radio Shack or Wal-Mart. I ddn't think so.
 
It will show a full charge until soon before it's down. I'd not review anything on the LCD. Bummer.
 
Yes, you seem to be correct. I can't imagine trying to shoot a week's vacation on two batteries.
 
Juli Valley said:
Yes, you seem to be correct. I can't imagine trying to shoot a
week's vacation on two batteries.
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You sure can. Now that I'm home and rechecking the manual, it says the cam is good for 620 shots without flash in warm weather. Of course, that would have allowed me over 1200 photos. I could have used the camera even more than I did. Pretty amazing battery life for a digital camera.
Steve
I had to move up when I couldn't get flash bulbs for the Brownie anymore.
http://www.pbase.com/stevebrown
 
Next time this happens to you (hopefully won't :-) lose the grip. The grip doesn't consume power from the battery, but a diode in the grip reduces the voltage which the camera "sees" by approximately 0.7 volts. This means that the camera "thinks" that the battery is (almost) empty when in fact it isn't.

For the exactly same reason a single battery used in a grip seemingly wears out quicker than when it is used in camera.

Jari
stephen s brown said:
I noticed it was missing while unpacking onboard ship. Oh no, now
what: seven days ahead, on vacation and no battery charger for my
camera.
Click to expand...
stephen s brown said:
Thumbs up to Canon, eight days on vacation with a single charge.
D60 W/grip.
Click to expand...
 
in the 'old days', we would probably have taken 10, maybe 20 rolls of film (360 - 720 pics) along for weeks trip ... so why would we need more than the 1000 or so pics we can get from the 10d:-)

Once one realised that one had a limit, one would probably be more careful before taking a pic, and so may even get better quality pics
Juli Valley said:
Yes, you seem to be correct. I can't imagine trying to shoot a
week's vacation on two batteries.
Click to expand...
 
stephen s brown said:
So
I ran down and checked with the ship photo department, maybe they
could help - "No. We use Oly systems."
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I would have done a little canvassing myself. You'd like to think there would be a couple of people at least among the half million passengers on a ship that size that might have a Canon (the G series take the same batteries as well).
 
marciad said:
marciad said:
So
I ran down and checked with the ship photo department, maybe they
could help - "No. We use Oly systems."
Click to expand...
I would have done a little canvassing myself. You'd like to think
there would be a couple of people at least among the half million
passengers on a ship that size that might have a Canon (the G
series take the same batteries as well).
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Almost everyone on board had a camera, but I did not notice any other Canon cameras. No luck.
Steve
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I had to move up when I couldn't get flash bulbs for the Brownie anymore.
http://www.pbase.com/stevebrown
 
Clearly your experience with the camera allow you to "save" the vacation.
Congratulation!.

Alfonso
http://www.pbase.com/bastias
stephen s brown said:
I noticed it was missing while unpacking onboard ship. Oh no, now
what: seven days ahead, on vacation and no battery charger for my
camera. I had even payed extra for a cabin with a deck so I could
set up the tripod to take photos while cruising down the coast. So
I ran down and checked with the ship photo department, maybe they
could help - "No. We use Oly systems." So I returned to our cabin
disgusted with myself. I had already used the camera for a few
shots just driving down to the port and visiting my son in LA.
Cameras always have limitations - there must be a workaround. I
checked, it still showed full charge. So i'll just do the best with
what I have. I reduced the brightness on the screen and the
preview time to minimum and set the auto shutdown to 2 min. Well
it worked, the batteries lasted the entire trip. I was careful to
shut down immediatly after each photo and I didn't use the camera
as much as I normally would have; but, at least it lasted and I got
most of what I intended photograph. Actually I downloaded my 1 gig
card and the 512 backup several times. I shot raw, a few hundred
photos.
Thumbs up to Canon, eight days on vacation with a single charge.
D60 W/grip.
A few photos here: http://homepage.mac.com/sbrowns1/PhotoAlbum3.html

Steve
I had to move up when I couldn't get flash bulbs for the Brownie
anymore.
http://www.pbase.com/stevebrown
Click to expand...
 
I'd add that if you have an IS lens, turn the IS off to conserve batteries. I think this uses up more batteries for me than anything else.
 
Hmm. Maybe the grip should be used until the camera thinks the battery is dead, on the untested premise that a lower voltage will mean less overall consumption by the camera. Then lose the grip for the remainder of the battery.
JariHi said:
For the exactly same reason a single battery used in a grip
seemingly wears out quicker than when it is used in camera.

Jari
stephen s brown said:
I noticed it was missing while unpacking onboard ship. Oh no, now
what: seven days ahead, on vacation and no battery charger for my
camera.
Click to expand...
JariHi said:
Thumbs up to Canon, eight days on vacation with a single charge.
D60 W/grip.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
I think I woulda stuck a telephoto in my jacket pocket, pressed it into the Captain's back, and said, "Turn this tub around, or I'll shot!" =)

I'm glad you made it through alright. The way I shoot, I probably would have burned through my batteries on the second day.
--
...Mike
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Trying to work my way up to rank amateur

 
I take back some of what I wrote earlier. (It's been a few years since my Electronics 101 class :-) There is a voltage drop across the diode and a current flows through it, therefore it does consume power. Consequently when power is in short supply it is better the get rid of the grip right away.

Strictly speaking I don't know for a fact that there is a diode inside the grip. I haven't disassembled it and I don't have any schematics. It is, however, HIGHLY likely that this is the case. In designing the electronics inside the grip the problem of using two batteries with different charge/voltage levels has to be dealt with. The batteries can not be simply connected in parallel. A diode in series with each one of the batteries is the lowest cost solutions to the problem. In volume quantities a diode probably costs a few cents.

Jari
Victor Engel said:
JariHi said:
Next time this happens to you (hopefully won't :-) lose the grip.
The grip doesn't consume power from the battery, but a diode in the
grip reduces the voltage which the camera "sees" by approximately
0.7 volts. This means that the camera "thinks" that the battery is
(almost) empty when in fact it isn't.

For the exactly same reason a single battery used in a grip
seemingly wears out quicker than when it is used in camera.

Jari
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I agree 100%. I will be the first to admit that when I'm near home, I shoot a lot more just because I can - and that's all right. However, on vacation I mostly shoot in Large JPEG. Say I have enough memory to shoot 600 photos & I'm going to be gone 6 days. I can plan to use approximately 100 per day, give or take. I find that I take less photos & send more time trying to capture the image. The result is I never run out of film and have more "keepers." Works for me! Buying more memory or a device to download photos to for my infrequent vacations reminds me of a neighbor that has a big RV sitting in his yard that he uses for vacation 3 weeks out of the year!
drthomas said:
in the 'old days', we would probably have taken 10, maybe 20 rolls
of film (360 - 720 pics) along for weeks trip ... so why would we
need more than the 1000 or so pics we can get from the 10d:-)

Once one realised that one had a limit, one would probably be more
careful before taking a pic, and so may even get better quality pics
Click to expand...
--
Brice
http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=442427
 
Looking at photographs I couldn't help but notice you have a dust spot on your camera sensor.

Every photo 10% from right 40% down is a mark which appears on all shots, most obviously in the blue sky.

Try following the camera manual instructions first, i.e. using a blower.

If not then here is some info.:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/sensor-cleaning.shtml

http://www.photo.net/equipment/digital/sensorcleaning/

Karl
stephen s brown said:
I noticed it was missing while unpacking onboard ship. Oh no, now
what: seven days ahead, on vacation and no battery charger for my
camera. I had even payed extra for a cabin with a deck so I could
set up the tripod to take photos while cruising down the coast. So
I ran down and checked with the ship photo department, maybe they
could help - "No. We use Oly systems." So I returned to our cabin
disgusted with myself. I had already used the camera for a few
shots just driving down to the port and visiting my son in LA.
Cameras always have limitations - there must be a workaround. I
checked, it still showed full charge. So i'll just do the best with
what I have. I reduced the brightness on the screen and the
preview time to minimum and set the auto shutdown to 2 min. Well
it worked, the batteries lasted the entire trip. I was careful to
shut down immediatly after each photo and I didn't use the camera
as much as I normally would have; but, at least it lasted and I got
most of what I intended photograph. Actually I downloaded my 1 gig
card and the 512 backup several times. I shot raw, a few hundred
photos.
Thumbs up to Canon, eight days on vacation with a single charge.
D60 W/grip.
A few photos here: http://homepage.mac.com/sbrowns1/PhotoAlbum3.html

Steve
I had to move up when I couldn't get flash bulbs for the Brownie
anymore.
http://www.pbase.com/stevebrown
Click to expand...
--
http://www.seeoxford.com - > 2000 panoramas in the Virtual Tour of Oxford
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/imagesofoxford - Photographs
 
This sort of happened to me twice but instead of just leaving the camera charger behind, I left the NiMH AA battery charger, the Image Tank charger and my cell phone charger as well. The first time was when I checked out of a hotel in NYC and the second time was when they lost my luggage on a trip to Canada.

Luckily, they found my chargers but they only got to me around 5-6 days after they went missing. In my case, the problem wasn't the camera (which held its charge) but the inability to dump my photos into the Image Tank because of the Image Tank's abyssmal battery life. I ended up having to switch to JPEGs.
 
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