By Jakob Jelling http://www.snapjunky.comEvery device needs a driving force to operate, just as every living thing needs a heart to keep it alive! Basically electric power does this job for any kind of devices nowadays. Similarly for any digital camera too, a good battery is necessary in order to ensure an excellent performance from it as long as possible. Being such a crucial task as if searching for a good heart for a human being, perhaps
most tedious thing about digital cameras is
quest for their battery consumption and thereby finding a suitable one for any particular one. Yet a basic overview regarding this so important component of a digital camera makes
ventures of
users somewhat less complicated and makes life easier with a proper selection of
battery!
Leaving aside
ever power thirsty LCD screens and flashes,
digital cameras themselves exhaust batteries much faster than film cameras, due to their state of
art electronic designs and intricate circuitry. Many digital cameras run from AA cells, around 4, and can even drain a set of alkaline cells in less than 1 hour of working! For example,
Kodak DC120 draws about 210mA during start or switch ON, but progresses to around 1.3A with
association of
LCD fully working and can go ahead to about 2.1A while picture taking and after it too.
With all these nightmares regarding
batteries of
digital cameras, it is worthwhile to analyze and reveal some of
available batteries for
digital cameras in an effort to explore area of power consumption in this fantastic device. Coming to first one of these, like its great name suggests, it is
Li-ion (Lithium Ion). It is one of
latest cell types available to digital camera users. This has many advantages to its credit. It is light in weight and currently available for many commercial uses and thus being so
Li-ion (Lithium Ion) battery type is becoming quite popular. This has an added advantage of being able to endow with more power than any of
other main cell types available. It is also free from
problems of memory effect, hat some battery types do have, and maintenance is least in this type of battery. These are but real goodies about this Li-ion (Lithium Ion) battery. Yet it has one major disadvantage, that is,
price is usually significantly higher than conventional batteries, due to its sophisticated design and technology.