About recharging newer digital cameras...

[lozina]

I have a pretty old digital camera, and it's photo quality has degraded so much it's time for me to buy a new one. One thing that always kinda annoyed me with this camera was when you remove the batteries to either recharge them or replace them, it would lose any time/date information so you'd have to remember to set that everytime. Do newer cameras have an additional onboard battery to save this date/time info so even when you swap the main batteries this info is saved?

 

[Ryan]

nah - my Fuji S5100 still does that, and it's practically brand new.

 

[Epic Fail]

All new digital cameras should save the date/time info now.

Edit: I see two exceptions already

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: lozina
I have a pretty old digital camera, and it's photo quality has degraded so much it's time for me to buy a new one. One thing that always kinda annoyed me with this camera was when you remove the batteries to either recharge them or replace them, it would lose any time/date information so you'd have to remember to set that everytime. Do newer cameras have an additional onboard battery to save this date/time info so even when you swap the main batteries this info is saved?

I swap rechargibles in the Canon a40 all the time. I have never heard of your problem unless it's REALLY ancient.

What's the make/model?

 

[Anubis]

nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

 

[MX2]

Mine loses the info too Just bought it less than year ago.

 

[aiex]

Both my canons (S1 and 300D) both keep the date/time and picture number with a separate battery.

Ai3x

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

You're kidding?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

You're kidding?

nope, well it resets if i take it out for an extended period of time, i know that, i dont know if it does after a few secs or no

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

You're kidding?

nope, well it resets if i take it out for an extended period of time, i know that, i dont know if it does after a few secs or no

How do you recharge the battery, do you need to take it out or you can directly recharge with the battery in.

 

[Kodiak]

My Kodiak DX6340 retains the date/time...

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

You're kidding?

nope, well it resets if i take it out for an extended period of time, i know that, i dont know if it does after a few secs or no

How do you recharge the battery, do you need to take it out or you can directly recharge with the battery in.

i just take it out, i really dont care about the date being correct in the exif

 

[0roo0roo]

hm my canon seems to remember its time

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

I swap rechargibles in the Canon a40 all the time. I have never heard of your problem unless it's REALLY ancient.

What's the make/model?

I've got an Olympus, the first model of their Ultra Zoom series.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
nah - my Fuji S5100 still does that, and it's practically brand new.

I have one too. sigh

I've got to be religious about keeping the batteries charged.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: rbloedow
nah - my Fuji S5100 still does that, and it's practically brand new.

I have one too. sigh

I've got to be religious about keeping the batteries charged.

I was thinking about buying the charger for the camera, so I never have to take the batteries out. Dunno yet though

 

[shekondar]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out

You're kidding?

nope, well it resets if i take it out for an extended period of time, i know that, i dont know if it does after a few secs or no

strange...I've left the battery out of my D70 overnight (while charging it) and it hasn't reset anything.

 

[lozina]

So it looks like it's pretty much a feature dependant on the manufacturer. I've never seen a list of camera features mentions something like this though... do they have a specific technical word for this kind of feature?

Good thing though I live just outside Manhattan... planning to hit B&H photo for my new camera so I'm sure the guys there can tell me what cameras have such a feature.

 

[wiredspider]

Originally posted by: aiex
Both my canons (S1 and 300D) both keep the date/time and picture number with a separate battery.

Ai3x

I got an A300 that keeps the info as well, yay for round batteries that you replace like almost never...