There's a really good battery shootout here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ACCS/BATTS/BATTS.HTM It popped up on http://www.arstechnica.com a while back. -- Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Jim Crumley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:00:38PM -0500, Chuck Cole wrote: > > You probably will get better lifetime and better cost from good throw-away > > batteries like Duracells. Rechargeable would be a real nuisance for me on a > > vacation trip. > > Huh? Have you tried rechargeable batteries lately? Sure you > probably get lifetime out quality disposable batteries than > lower end rechargeables, but metal-based rechargeables last > _longer_ in digital cameras and the like [1]. > > As for price, even alkaline rechargeables end up being a win > in the long run. I get lifetimes only a little worse than high > quality disposable batteries (and better than cheap disposables) > from rechargeable alkalines, I get at least 20 charges out of > them, and the price is only twice that of high quality disposable > batteries. > > 1. http://www.greenbatteries.com/documents/battery_myths.htm > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org