Top tip: buy a second battery (and keep it charged!) · Sep 11, 11:16 PM by Simon Mackie
Modern digital SLRs are great, but one disadvantage is that you are totally reliant on the battery – on older manual film SLRs even if the battery failed and the meter wasn’t working, you could still take pictures by using the sunny-16 rule, making a best guess for the exposure, and bracketing. However, on a DSLR, if the battery goes,you’re stuck with no ability to take pictures at all. Avoid what happened to me at the weekend – buy a second battery, keep it charged, and keep it in your camera bag at all times. Otherwise, you’re guaranteed that the battery will fail just when that perfect photo appears.
commenting closed for this article
Canon 400D/Rebel XTi hands-on preview at DPreview Update: Image stabilization on Pentax K100D