I went out and took a few photos of a bicycle race today. 2360 images on one D7K battery and had enough left in the tank to use the camera to download all of the photos via USB cable when I got home. The battery display still shows 1 bar left. Not too bad.
I see the same sort of thing but I never soot that much. I'll pop off a couple hundred shots and it doesn't appear to take any battery at all to do it.
wbulr wrote:
I shot 9076 shots at a marathon last year with mine on two batteries. I still had 25% left on the second one. It's incredible.
WOW. I don't think mine will go that long. I took my D200 as a backup camera. I got 257 shots out of one battery. But that battery is probably about 4 years old. It was still pretty disappointing.
My D80 battery lasts upwards of 600-700 shots and the D7000 battery lasts even more than that (under normal usage). Just amazing how battery life has evolved. I love it.
workerdrone wrote:
D800 is the first camera I've owned that inhales batteries....D7000 took the same cell and lasted forever in comparison.
Is it a "new" battery you're using It takes 3 complete charge/discharge cycles before the sucker will
give you it's all. (I typically discharge to ~20%) My D800 goes over 2,000 clicks with that showin' writing
RAW/LgJpegs to fast cards. I don't chimp or use VR much, maybe THAT makes the difference.
Oh, yeah...my D7K's get twice that.
I shot 480 shots the other day (some with a flash) on my gripped D7000. At the end of the day I had 100% on one and 86% on the second battery. Not too shabby.
trenchmonkey wrote:
Is it a "new" battery you're using It takes 3 complete charge/discharge cycles before the sucker will
give you it's all. (I typically discharge to ~20%) My D800 goes over 2,000 clicks with that showin' writing
RAW/LgJpegs to fast cards. I don't chimp or use VR much, maybe THAT makes the difference.
Oh, yeah...my D7K's get twice that.
TM, you shoot raw+jpg? Surprised to hear that. Do you ever do anything with the raws?
thursdaylsr wrote:
Run enloops in the grip and you'll forget what it means to have to charge the battery, especially if not cheacking your shots nonstop.
I shot a 12 hour wedding, then shot corporate stuff all week and then another wedding with the battery in camera and 1 in grip. Had 2 bars left when I left the second wedding. Not real sure why I have 4 extra batteries? Seems like 1 would be enough
ANother thing. When I had other cameras, d700, d300, d2x, d2h and some others. I would be so worried about charging batteries I would charge them every few day in fear of them dying on a shoot for a client. Now I charge once a week, if that and it last for a whole wedding and usually all of my daily shoots all week.
Pretty crazy....
I keep a charger in my car just in case I forget to charge and need a battery charged while out on a shoot.
It takes 3 complete charge/discharge cycles before the sucker will
