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About recharging newer digital cameras...

lozina

lozina

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

Ai3x
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
Originally posted by: Anubis
nope, my D70 DSLR looses the info when i take the bat out
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You're kidding?
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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
 
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
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You're kidding?
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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
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How do you recharge the battery, do you need to take it out or you can directly recharge with the battery in.
 
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
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You're kidding?
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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
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How do you recharge the battery, do you need to take it out or you can directly recharge with the battery in.
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i just take it out, i really dont care about the date being correct in the exif
 
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?
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I've got an Olympus, the first model of their Ultra Zoom series.

 
Originally posted by: jadinolf
Originally posted by: rbloedow
nah - my Fuji S5100 still does that, and it's practically brand new.
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I have one too. sigh

I've got to be religious about keeping the batteries charged.
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I was thinking about buying the charger for the camera, so I never have to take the batteries out. Dunno yet though
 
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
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You're kidding?
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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
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strange...I've left the battery out of my D70 overnight (while charging it) and it hasn't reset anything.
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: aiex
Both my canons (S1 and 300D) both keep the date/time and picture number with a separate battery.

Ai3x
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I got an A300 that keeps the info as well, yay for round batteries that you replace like almost never...
 
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