I haven't noticed it either. I just used it last Sunday at an airshow. Took some 2,200+ photos with tons of chimping and showing my friends before the first battery started blinking on me and I changed it. Didn't quite die out!
Make absolutely sure GPS and WIFI aren't on. What brightness setting do you have your screen on? I keep mind on default setting except when doing astrophotography (I lower it), so I don't have experience with battery life while maxing out LCD brightness. Could that be it? Do you have another battery you can try with the camera to rule out it being the battery that is the problem?
Max_Pain wrote:
Make absolutely sure GPS and WIFI aren't on. What brightness setting do you have your screen on? I keep mind on default setting except when doing astrophotography (I lower it), so I don't have experience with battery life while maxing out LCD brightness. Could that be it? Do you have another battery you can try with the camera to rule out it being the battery that is the problem?
I leave the GPS turned on at all times, and have not noticed any issues with battery life. It draws very little power on the 5D Mark IV.
I had some concerns when I first started using my 5DIV, but since I've gotten more comfortable with the camera I've stopped chimping so much, as well as fiddling with the settings, and noticed much better battery life.
Check the auto power off setting. It sounds like you are talking about actual shooting drain so this may not apply. My 80D would drain a battery over night. It turned out that auto power off was set to disable. Don't know what it was doing with just the upper LCD displaying but it used a lot of battery.
Lots of thing affect battery life, like temperature and battery age. How cold was it? I have had good luck with some off brand batteries, but if they are cheap, might not last as long.
All the newer Canon bodies have worse battery life than the last generation. That started with the 7D2, then the 5DSR, now the 5D4. And even the 1DX2 is way worse than the 1DX.
I don't know what Canon is smoking, you'd think we could get improvements in battery life over time and not worse every generation.
When you continue to use the same battery and continue to add more features, unfortunately something has to give.
arbitrage wrote:
All the newer Canon bodies have worse battery life than the last generation. That started with the 7D2, then the 5DSR, now the 5D4. And even the 1DX2 is way worse than the 1DX.
I don't know what Canon is smoking, you'd think we could get improvements in battery life over time and not worse every generation.
arbitrage wrote:
All the newer Canon bodies have worse battery life than the last generation. That started with the 7D2, then the 5DSR, now the 5D4. And even the 1DX2 is way worse than the 1DX.
I don't know what Canon is smoking, you'd think we could get improvements in battery life over time and not worse every generation.
Personally I don't find that the 1Dx2 is in anyway worse than the 1DX.
Actually I find it on par if not better than the 1Dx.
Yesterday on a fully charged battery on the 1Dx II, I shot 1273 frames and my battery life is at 77 percent. No where near the CIPA standard rating of 1,210 shots that the reviewers say it has.
arbitrage wrote:
All the newer Canon bodies have worse battery life than the last generation. That started with the 7D2, then the 5DSR, now the 5D4. And even the 1DX2 is way worse than the 1DX.
I don't know what Canon is smoking, you'd think we could get improvements in battery life over time and not worse every generation.
They're probably looking at Sony users, who are ecstatic when they can get more than a few dozen shots per battery charge...
For me the number of photos per charge doesn't mean much because it will vary greatly with the amount of screen usage for chimping, changing settings and perhaps live view.
From each battery I get about three hours of "messing about" with the 5D4 and I would definitely have at least one spare battery on hand for any day trip.
Of more concern to me is how long it takes to recharge the batteries - about three hours each. The standard charger takes only one battery (unlike the older 1-series chargers that I've had) and so if I used several batteries during a day of shooting then it would take all night to recharge them and probably disrupt my sleep too in order to have them all ready for the following day.
Whether or not you use the screen much, just practising with AF (and hence metering) and composing shots without actually shooting will reduce the battery life, as will using IS. I assume the lens will make a difference too depending on the power requirements of its AF and IS systems.
On top of extra battery usage by camera, lens and user, I think that some recent changes to Japanese transport (or other) regulations affected the capacity per camera battery.
I just shot over 800 pictures with 3/4 battery remaining. I put the camera away for the evening the next day the battery was almost dead. Wifi and GPS are both off. Something causes drain when the camera is off.
Alan321 wrote:
For me the number of photos per charge doesn't mean much because it will vary greatly with the amount of screen usage for chimping, changing settings and perhaps live view.
From each battery I get about three hours of "messing about" with the 5D4 and I would definitely have at least one spare battery on hand for any day trip.
Of more concern to me is how long it takes to recharge the batteries - about three hours each. The standard charger takes only one battery (unlike the older 1-series chargers that I've had) and so if I used several batteries during a day of shooting then it would take all night to recharge them and probably disrupt my sleep too in order to have them all ready for the following day.
Whether or not you use the screen much, just practising with AF (and hence metering) and composing shots without actually shooting will reduce the battery life, as will using IS. I assume the lens will make a difference too depending on the power requirements of its AF and IS systems.
On top of extra battery usage by camera, lens and user, I think that some recent changes to Japanese transport (or other) regulations affected the capacity per camera battery.
I have a half dozen LC-E6 chargers, but if you don't want to carry several there are lightweight 3rd party USB chargers with two slots. Two of the two slot chargers will handle four batteries. The charging rate is roughly 2/3 the LC-E6 and more than sufficient for overnight.
Alan321 wrote:
Of more concern to me is how long it takes to recharge the batteries - about three hours each.
Sounds like there's something wrong with your charger - my LP-E6N batteries never take more than an hour to recharge (and usually less than that if they aren't completely dead).
VictorJB wrote:
When you continue to use the same battery and continue to add more features, unfortunately something has to give.
I agree but I"m not using any different features on the 1DX2 or 5DSR etc. I"m not using Wifi or GPS or 4K...just shooting as normal. I'd expect the same battery life doing that.
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Mike Veltri wrote:
Personally I don't find that the 1Dx2 is in anyway worse than the 1DX.
Actually I find it on par if not better than the 1Dx.
Yesterday on a fully charged battery on the 1Dx II, I shot 1273 frames and my battery life is at 77 percent. No where near the CIPA standard rating of 1,210 shots that the reviewers say it has.
Just saying....
Yes I can get those sort of numbers on the 1DX2 also shooting high FPS. But typically I'd go out for a day of shooting and 1DX would be around 75% when I got home. Now most days with the 1DX2 I'm down around 50% or lower. That is with using the new battery in the 1DX2 to get 14FPS. I haven't tried the old one yet in it to see if that is better or worse.
