The biggest and most important tip that I’d tell anyone who’s bought a digicam in the past few years is to make sure that your battery life will last. Sure, you can go ahead and see if you can find a newer battery on Amazon or something. But in many cases, that’s just not possible. So what do you do instead?
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Well, the best thing that you can possibly do is dim the screen. You know how your phone can automatically adjust its brightness for you? Well, camera screens only really got good at doing that in the past few years. However, if you’ve bought a digicam, chances are that you’ve got pretty good eyesight. In that case, you should be just fine dimming the screen to do whatever you want.
If you’re in bright sunlight, then it’s probably better to turn the brightness all the way up. But know that if you do that, it will drain the battery life very quickly. The darker you can make the screen, the less battery life it will drain. That means that you’ll be able to shoot more photos.
On top of that, there are a few other things. Don’t turn the camera on and off all the time because powering the lens drains more battery. Set the sleep timer to something reasonably long, instead.
You’d be amazed at how much the lens can drain battery power. In addition to the tip I just mentioned, also be sure to set the camera to Single autofocus and perhaps even just use the center focus point. Digicam batteries and the cameras themselves are pretty old. And it wasn’t until really recently that battery life was really good. The only exception to that rule is with Canon — they’ve always had pretty amazing battery life.
Then there’s memory! If you have access to a faster SD card, use it. It will mean that it’s much more efficient for the camera to write the image to the card. Therefore, it will also drain less battery power.
Try these tips and you’ll notice that your retro Digicam will be able to last so much longer.
