Digital Camera Battery - Keep Playback to a Minimum

SUMMARY: Using the playback mode of your digital camera may wear out your batteries.

I know it can be tempting to show your friends and family pictures you take with a digital camera immediately afterwards, but try to keep image playback to a minimum while you are still out taking pictures. Picture playback can drain batteries, and nothing is worse than seeing something great to photograph and watching your camera's battery meter flash empty. Just politely tell your friends and family that as soon as you are done shooting, you'll be happy to run a slideshow of the photos.

Of course, feel free to play back one or two photos while you are out having fun; just don't take 100 photos and show people the results of every single image capture. Note that if you use batteries with higher mAh capacities, you may be able to play back more photos without draining your batteries.

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