When I got my D610 I easily used to get 700 plus shots out of it, using older screw driver type lenses, but I have noticed in the last week or so that my battery life has just gone to the dogs.
Any idea why this should be happening, is there maybe a setting that is draining the battery's life?? The battery indicator shows the battery's as "new", under a year.
Are you chimping more than usual? Using VR/VC/OS a lot??
I get 1500 or so with ~25% charge remaining (D600) and
that's with about 30,000 actuations on it.
I usually get ~1200+ shots from a charge without a problem (D600 bought when released). I don't chimp, and don't use LV often. I recently got a chubby, and with VR set to active the battery seems drain faster than average. The battery monitor still lists condition as new for your battery, does the shots remaining reflect the degradation at all?
So, my problem has not gone away, as a matter of fact has become worse. Camera has been with Nikon South Africa for 2 weeks and they seem to not be of any help, blaming my lenses?? WTF??
Anyway, I went out and rented a D7000, and just fired away at will, just to see if the problem is maybe, my lens, in continuous autofocus and trying to really work the focus motor. Needless to say I got to 1000 shots with 85% battery remaining. I did same with my 80-200 AF-D, and also the results on D7000 is much better than expected.
Today, I bolted the 80-200 to the D610 and the performance is ridiculously poor, less than a 100 shots and battery showing 12% remaining? I did however notice that the top LCD light does not go off, I forced it off in menu now and will see if that makes any difference, but doubt it.
Has any of you guys seen anything like this?
My camera still under warranty from Nikon, so I honestly feel they should fix or replace the unit, but like I said, it has been with them for 2 weeks and for whatever reason they say they can't replicate what I see??
I don't think I see this listed but have you tried a different battery in it? Even a non-branded one will tell you if the issue is the camera or the battery. I know you said the camera lists it as good but I have no idea what the parameters are for that and this would be a simple trouble shooting step to narrow things down.
Yeah, sounds like a battery issue. Could be that it's old, defective, or the charger might not be working properly. I tend to get around 2000 shots per charge when not checking the LCD much, so you should be able to get well over 100.
swainsons wrote:
So, all this was, was setting C2, that was on infinity, I have set it to 4 secs and my pain have dissipated.
Amazing, that Nikon techies could not figure this out in 2 weeks.
Regards
Must be paid by the hour at Nikon
I will add that some third party batteries show dead very quickly, but they'll chug on for a long time. They're basically giving a bad read to the camera.
Haha, standby timer would do it. Anyway I have used a D7000 and D600 quite a bit and I wouldn't be alarmed if you still see a difference. Although they're "rated" around the same, the D7000 has much better battery life. I thought something was wrong at first but apparently this is normal.
so this thread just solved the "problem" i was having with my d750. i'd set this standby timer to 10 minutes.
but i find it completely annoying that nikon doesn't continue to display the fixed parameters of my exposure settings without draining the battery big time. in other words if i'm at ISO 800, f/2.8 and am in aperture priority, i like to be able to look at the LCD on top and know that i'm set at f/2.8, ISO 800. by changing this back to 4 seconds or whatever the information disappears almost instantly which seems ridiculous to me.
I came here to ask what your meter timer (standby) was set at haha, that's usually the problem when people complain about battery life. Glad you got it sorted out
Must be paid by the hour at Nikon