what digicam to buy for trails?

[David Metsky]

Not only that, but after taking a couple hundred shots in a day, the battery life indicator didn't even flinch.

Unfortunately, the battery life indicator on Canons only seem to have two modes; full, almost out. They read full until you only have a little time left on the batteries.

Having said that, I've been very happy with battery life on my SD300. So much so that I still haven't bought the backup battery.

-dave-

 

[ExploreTheEast]

Unfortunately, the battery life indicator on Canons only seem to have two modes; full, almost out. They read full until you only have a little time left on the batteries.
-dave-

That may have been the case with the G3. The Pro1 and the G6 are pretty accurate regarding how much juice is left. Although I'm only speaking from my experience with the two G6's and Pro1 I've owned. If there's one thing I've learned with digital cameras in general, two cameras of the same make and model are not necessarily going to perform alike.

 

[DougPaul]

Unfortunately, the battery life indicator on Canons only seem to have two modes; full, almost out. They read full until you only have a little time left on the batteries.

Most battery indicators just tell you the voltage of the battery. Some battery technologies have a decaying voltage as the cell is used up (eg alkaline)--these indicators work well for these technologies.

Some other battery technologies (eg disposable lithium, NiMH, NiCad, Lion) have a rectangular discharge curve--that is the voltage stays fairly constant until the cell is nearly depleted. The voltage based indicators don't tell you much about these batteries.

Alkaline cells start at ~1.55V, NiMH and NiCads start at ~1.25V. Thus a battery indicator calibrated for alkalines will show fresh NiMH and NiCads as about half full.

Doug