life of batteryFriday, April 15, 2005
I have the nikon coolpix 4300 digital and two of these batterys. They work great as long as they last which is not 2 hours in my case. Maybe it is because I leave the monitor and flash on most of the time and take my pictures in a large size. All in all with two of these battery's I never run out of juice!
3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Save Hundreds and Hundreds on disposable Batteries.Tuesday, April 12, 2005
If this Battery is the one for your Camera, Buy at least Two of these and get a recharger for AC and one for DC. I have taken hundreds of 5.1 MP shots on just two batteries. Recharging one while using the other.
If I missed a shot it wasn't the dead battery fault.
If you buy two of these batteries you can take pics like you just don't care, and you won't have to either. What more could you ask? it is a no brainer.
3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Required accessory for your cameraTuesday, September 28, 2004
Lets put it short and simple:
If you want to spend a day out photographing, you must have a backup battery. There are few things more disappointing than running out of battery when you still want to take pictures.
I didn't have a backup battery while visiting Paris. We ended up buying many EXPENSIVE disposable batteries.
When you consider how priceless memories of your vacations are, it would be a shame to let a few dollars keep those memories from being recorded.
13 out of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Very Good Wednesday, August 18, 2004
I own six of these batteries, and they have all worked fine. I typically go on road trips with some mountain climbing, and I will shoot hundreds of images a day. Generally, I go through about two batteries a day, at this rate. I often camp, so am unable to get to a power source, then have to get a motel room sometimes every other day.
Using my EH-21, I can recharge as many as five batteries a night--they usually take some 1.5 hours to fully recharge. It's so convenient to have the recharge light so I know when the charge is completed.
I hope to upgrade to a higher MP Coolpix, soon, and the added recharger that now comes along with the camera should make for faster recharging, then able to use two at a time.
You do need to keep these babies warm during the night camping, and take them out of the camera while you're not using them during cool or cold nights.
I have to replace a exhausted battery quickly for my Coolpix 880, since if I wait too long, I must reset the camera settings, including the time and date. My Coolpix 2000 does not have this problem.
It's good to have a few batteries since they take up little room in my camera pack, and beginners might be distressed to find with only one or two batteries, you can run out of juice after only a few hundred shots. I do use my LCD display heavily, and am often turning the camera on and off.
Cheers for Nikon that they do not fail to support this product by changing to new types of batteries for their newer models. I plan to get either a 5400 or 8700, later, since they use the same battery type.
These EN-EL 1 batteries last much longer than a set of AA batteries. They have lasted me some hundreds of recharges so far, and I have not had to throw away any of my batteries, going back to 2001.
7 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:
battery life span is 3 years!Wednesday, July 21, 2004
The battery is quick to charge and lasts days for the 995 I'm using. One draw back though: if you are the kind of amateur like me who takes tons of photos on one trip and forget the camera for half a year, then remember to take the battery out before you store it away! Otherwise as fore-warned in the brochure you'll see you battery aging much faster than it should be. This fact is buried in the camera manual and the battery doesn't come with any manual at all!