XZ-1 battery life

[coralcruiser]

For those of you that have used this camera... about how many dives can you get before having to change the battery?

I plan on shooting raw+jpg with the internal flash set on the lowest setting.

Just want to make sure that I can get 2 dives shooting maybe 200-250 pics without having to change the battery.... hate having to change it for each dive!

Am looking at getting this camera to hold me over for a year until I can figure out which micro 4/3 to buy (and have the $$$ to get one).... it will be replacing my g-10 that got flooded two weeks ago. :-(

 

[herbdb]

I don't know if I shot quite that many pictures, but I have used my camera on three 40-50 minute dives without a low battery warning. I changed batteries and SD cards when I went to my room just to be on the safe side, usually after two or three dives.

 

[coralcruiser]

Glad to hear that!! Did you buy oem batteries?

 

[Jun Lao]

had it for a year, first 9 months, with flash lowest setting just enough to trigger external strobe, I get 3 dives heavy shooting, +/- 300 photos

latter months, I experience just full two dives or roughly +/-220 photos

 

[coralcruiser]

Thanks... went ahead and ordered one yesterday and am going to order some 1400 Mah OEM batteries today. These have a higher power rating than the one that comes with so hopefully will have no problems going for two dives on a single battery

 

[webstep1]

I get 2 dives with mine, 3 if I am careful or don't shoot a lot. Flash set to 1/64, raw+LF. I have a mix of batteries including older ones from my tough-6020 so I try my best to swap batteries after 2 dives.

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