I got an SX100 IS for christmas. What is my best option for rechargeable batteries? I've read that the battery life is not great on the SX100. I will primarily keep this camera in my backpack while hunting, so it will be used in cold conditions much of the time, which is not ideal for battery performance.
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Best battery option for SX100 IS
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Sean Nelson
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This one is easy to answer - get "Hybrid" NiMH batteries like the Sanyo Eneloops.
Conventional NiMH batteries may have a high capacity rating (ie, 2900mAH), but they have a short shelf life. This means that they may take lots of pictures if you put a freshly charged set into the camera and start firing away until they run down, but if you leave them in the camera for a few weeks they'll run down on their own, even if you don't take any pictures. According to comments I've read they typically loose up to 3% of their charge EVERY DAY.
The newer "Hybrid" batteries have a lower capacity rating (typically 2000mAH), but they'll hold almost all their charge for over a year. In practice this means more shots for most people. I regularly get around 500 shots out of two AA Eneloops in my Canon A710, and I expect their performance in an SX100 would be very similar. That's using the LCD all the time, reviewing most of the shots I take, but not using the flash much if at all.
The only reason not to use the hybrids is if you usually take several hundred pictures within the space of a week or so - in that case the higher capacity of some conventional NiMH batteries may outweigh their their short shelf life.
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