E-330 Battery Life

[rcolman]

Is anyone experiencing very short battery life on their E-330? I recently switched to an E-330 from an E-300, where I routinely filled a 2GB card with raw images and had plenty of battery power to spare - usually three dives without cracking the housing.

However, on today's first splash of my new E-330 rig, I got an "out of batter"condition after about forty images. Live preview was ON. I thought that I had a fully charged battery.

Your comments appreciated.

Rick Colman

 

[jlyle]

Yesterday, I got three hours and hundreds of images on my E-330 battery using live- preview. Either your battery wasn't fully charged or you have a bad batt.

 

[calypsonick]

Rick, last weekend I had the live view on all the time for two long dives for a total of almost 3 hours and 270+ photos and it did not show me the low juice signal until the very end of the day. I was surprised to be able to take 15-20 photos while the low battery signal was still blinking at me.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

How cold was it? It can take a toll on batteries...

 

[jlyle]

How cold was it? It can take a toll on batteries...

Rick and I are both diving in Southern California where the water is ~60 degrees, so cold isn't the issue.

 

[Allison Finch]

60 not cold???!!!!!

Are you out of your f$%#ing mind??

BRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[gregorio]

I heard that for some kinds of battery, they don't reach their full capacity before few charging/discharging cycles.