M10-D Battery Life

[Bobby]

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I am considering getting a digital M body. I was wondering how long is the battery life (assuming no wifi and no evf)?

I'm tempted by the 10-D but I presume the 240 battery life is much better.

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[jakontil]

The m240 still posses the better battery despite not using evf and wifi

 

drowns much quicker with either one feature activated 

[AndreasG]

The battery capacity of the 240 is 1800mAh, the M10-D's 1100mAh. In any case you should keep a spare battery, regardless of 240 or M10-D. As mentioned above, WiFi and EVF draw a lot of electricity.

[Guest]

If you don't use the Wifi or the EVF, ( with the M10-D the GPS function is automatically turned on when you mount the Visoflex 020 and there's no way to disable and turn off the GPS which is really stupid ), and set the "sleep mode" to 2 minutes you should be good to go for most of a day of shooting, it works for me anyway but sure, carry a spare battery anyway....why wouldn't you?

Once I turn the camera on I don't turn it off until the day's use is done, and I have found in one test when I left the camera turned on for a couple of days or so and in "sleep mode" the battery loss was minimal. I actually tape over the rear off/on/wifi switch so as to prevent me accidentally turning it too far to the wifi position, something I did too many times before resorting to the camera tape solution.

[SiOnara]

I take a couple of pics a day so my battery literally lasts months 😉