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I got a third party spare battery for my Canon camera and it was both fairly inexpensive and frankly better than the Canon battery.
I've also used AA powered cameras with good rechargeable AAs and have been pretty happy as well. There is also the extra security of knowing you can also pop into a store and get batteries if you forget to recharge and leave the spare or the charger at home.
For trips I'd also recommend an inverter for the car, so you can charge up anything while traveling.
i don't want to pay $10+ for batteries every couple of months.
I finally bought some rechargeable batteries, but it was around that time that my camera went kerflooey, as it now eats battery power like nothing else.
Do they last long enough that if you're taking, say, fifty or so pictures with flash all day, they'll be okay? I'm very conservative about taking pictures, even with a digital camera, but I found that AA wouldn't last too long if you were taking a lot of flash pictures, which is what happens indoors.
There is also the extra security of knowing you can also pop into a store and get batteries if you forget to recharge and leave the spare or the charger at home.
I like security! But it doesn't look like I'll get it. Very few of the decent cameras I looked at use AAs. They seem to be moving away from that.
I can only speak for my Canon SLR, but we can easily take a hundred flash pictures on a fully charged battery.
I thought that was a pretty cheap shot.
Well yeah.
But I laughed anyway.
Ok, now I'm reading all kinds of horror stories about HD from cable boxes not working with receivers. Gaaaaaaaaaaaah. I just want to be able to plug shit in and have it work. Is that really so much to ask?
[The real problem is that most of these forum posts are from 2006, and I have no idea how accurate any of this information still is.]
Couldn't you just run HDMI to the TV and then digital audio from the TV to the receiver?
Couldn't you just run HDMI to the TV and then digital audio from the TV to the receiver?
Yes, that's what I suspect we'll end up doing.
Do they last long enough that if you're taking, say, fifty or so pictures with flash all day, they'll be okay?
absolutely!