Re: thoughts on new Canon compacts?

"Mike Henley" <casioculture@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I empathise because I had the same requirement. I must say now, though,
it's not worth it. The reasons are:
- It's easier to carry and handle two or three spare
designed-for-camera batteries than to carry, say, 8 or 12 AA batteries.

Thanks for the kind thoughts, but I'm not a newbie and I'm not really
interested in advice like that. I've had AA cameras and I've had
lithium cameras, and I know the good and bad points of both well
enough to make up my own mind without further advice on the topic, and
I want an AA camera. But just to answer you:

1. The comparable lithium camera to the A610 would be something like
the SD550. It uses a lithium battery which is about 3.6v 800 mAH or
something like that, which is the same amount of energy as *one* AA
cell (2500 mAH 1.2v NiMH), not four. So you should compare carrying
two or three spare designed-for-camera batteries to carrying two or
three spare AA's, not 8 or 12.

2. In fact you're already carrying an AA charger because of your other
devices that use AA's, but for a lithium camera, you need a separate
charger. So you have to compare carrying two or three more AA's
($2.50 each and interoperable with your other gear) with carrying two
or three much more expensive proprietary batteries ($10 or so each if
you are willing to deal with buying them on ebay, $20+ otherwise) that
are incompatible with everything else, AND carrying another yet charger.

Conclusion: I want to stick with AA. Not lithium. Thanks.
.

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