Awful Battery Life - Nikon D7100

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I'm getting just under 200 shots per charge - I have two batteries, one Nikon and one Duracell which are both new and they both perform exactly the same. I only bought the Duracell because I assumed the battery had had it (I bought the camera used from MPB about a month ago).

I'm not doing anything unusual with the camera, I have the display turned down to -3 - which I hardly use anyway, never use Live View and have had up to very recently a non VR Lens on. Once or twice when I've connected it to the PC I can watch the battery go down in front of my eyes.

I'm pretty p***ed of tbh with MPB, I bought a kit lens which is that soft wide open it borders on faulty and now this.
 
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Businesses have a 14 return policy by law. You can send it all back within 14 days I believe
 
MPB have a 6 month warranty on their used kit. :)
 
ecoleman said:
Does the camera have GPS? GPS is always active when on and can reduce battery life quite significantly.
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Good point.

Plus, turn off the built-in AF-Assist light if not required.
 
d00d said:
Good point.

Plus, turn off the built-in AF-Assist light if not required.
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The AF light is now off and the D7100 has a GPS slot for an adaptor, I checked though andall GPS setting are off.
 
In my experience cameras don't do half the number of clicks-per-charge the manufacturers claim. But I do very little continuous shooting, I take single shots, view them, zoom in to check sharpness detail, delete most on camera, of course all that kind of activity is using power, as does your focus motor and VR.
 
I get 600-1,000 shots per charge on a fairly old D7100

I don't have any auto review set up, so only occasionally look at the shots on the screen.
 
Blimey ... the different habits we have....

I charge up my D5300 battery, say, once a fortnight and take about 3000 shots a year.
 
Pound Coin said:
I get 600-1,000 shots per charge on a fairly old D7100

I don't have any auto review set up, so only occasionally look at the shots on the screen.
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I don't have auto review set up but I do review pictures quite a bit, deleting blurred ones etc. Even then, 200 seems bad. I got 200 out of my old mirrorless G3 using the LCD/touch screen constantly.
 
I don't use Nikon but for a DSLR that is very low. One tip I saw on another forum was a factory reset and keeping screen use to a minimum.
 
Archie747 said:
I don't use Nikon but for a DSLR that is very low. One tip I saw on another forum was a factory reset and keeping screen use to a minimum.
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Yep, disappointingly low. There seems to be a few people with the same unexplained problem after googling it the problem. Strangely they're all reporting a similar number of shots.
 
d00d said:
Good point.

Plus, turn off the built-in AF-Assist light if not required.
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Nailed it. It didn't seem to be making any difference at first and then - hey presto, suddenly the battery level just stayed put. I've been out with it today and 131 shots later it's at 75%.
 
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