jpgilham Wrote:
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> I had 6 involved photo audits to do yesterday. I
> took my camera and two spare batteries and I could
> not believe it when I got only 10 photos out of
> each battery! I'm like WTH?? Since each location
> required about 21 photos I went to my backup
> camera, a little Canon I purchased specifically in
> case this happened. I turn it on and I can't
> believe it, the battery is dead. This left me
> with only my smartphone. I was pretty anxious
> about it but had no choice but to continue the
> audits with my smartphone since they were a long
> way from my home. I finished up the audits, came
> home and downloaded the photos and you can barely
> tell the difference between my smartphone pictures
> and the initially 30 photos I took with my very
> expensive Canon Rebel XT DSLR (cost me over
> $1000). Perhaps two of the photos were a little
> dark but that was about it.
>
> Still waiting to hear if the MSC notices and says
> anything.
That's why I love my Nikon Cool Pix S4300. It has a rechargeable battery that lasts forever. They only time it has died on me was when I had not charged it for a couple of weeks. I have done 9 or 10 audits a day without the battery dying. It also has the date/time stamp feature. I used to use my cell phone before I got my camera, but I got tired of having to add the date/time stamp and resizing them. Even with a couple of companies that said no cell phone pictures... they accepted the photos from my phone.