with lithium batteries how long can you video. how do you see the videos
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Chummy - Even with lithium batteries, I have only been able to video for a minute or two before the batteries are depleted. In fact, just with regular photos, you need lithium. Regular batteries die after a short time of shooting. I have given up trying to use this camera for video, but with lithium batteries, it takes fantastic photos. In answer to your second question, you can view the video the same way you view photos on the camera, or load the video onto your computer. I hope this helped.
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I haven't specifically used video that long, but with a couple of short (less than a minute vignettes each) with several hundred stills, 400+, and shooting off of the screen on the back and reviewing each shot as long as needed, I was able to do all that and the battery held up fine. That was over a couple of days even, and finally charged it when it got to about 5% after all that. Hope that helps.
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I use AA Lithium batteries. I record an image every 10 minutes from 6:00am to 6:00pm. I use a 32 gigabyte memory card. The average daily file is approximately 20 megabytes. I've changed the batteries every four months. The camera still showed the batteries as being full, but I changed them just to be safe.
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The camera doesn't allow you to display how many minutes of battery life are left. It only has the icon of a battery that shows how much battery is left. Not able to figure out if it means a few minutes or a few seconds. We always have a second charged battery with us so that we can keep filming. We have also just used the cord connected to the camera as the power source.
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Hi John, if you take video, it will last for 2 to 4 hours, you can buy a spare battery at the same time. Feng Te
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I ran a test and timed it for almost 2 hours before depleting the battery charge. Using a 16GB Micro SD memory card it recorded about 10GB of VGA mode video during the test. If you use the original SD card that comes with the camera you will use up all the storage space before the battery runs down.
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Depends on the size of the micro card in the glasses. The glasses have a battery life of 2 hours. You can record roughly 90 minutes of 1080 video with 32gb card.
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The camera recording rate is 2GB = 30 minutes. Therefore 16GB = 4 hours. This should be obtainable using Energizer lithium AAA's. Switching the camera off then back on will not shorten the battery life compared to letting the camera split the video itself.
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i did not use it for long duration videos. the video quality is 720 pixel. i think the battery life is good.
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I have mine set to take videos and get 3-4 weeks out of a set of batteries. I get three times as long when set on pictures. Beats my other trail cameras and they don't have audio.
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I have two of these vixia hf m41 camcorders and use them to make half hour to one hour local community tv programs. The original batteries only last me around an hour or so, and certainly do not last a two or three hour shoot, which are later edited down to half or one hour programs. You must have extra batteries. Get the larger capacity batteries, so you do not have to replace the short-lived batteries and have to stop videoing while you are replacing them. The longer lived batteries stick out from the back of the camcorder, but that is not a bad trade-off, in order to not lose valuable video footage. I have two of these vixia hf m41 camcorders and use them to make half hour to one hour local community tv programs. The original batteries only last me around an hour or so, and certainly do not last a two or three hour shoot, which are later edited down to half or one hour programs. You must have extra batteries. Get the larger capacity batteries, so you do not have to replace the short-lived batteries and have to stop videoing while you are replacing them. The longer lived batteries stick out from the back of the camcorder, but that is not a bad trade-off, in order to not lose valuable... » Read More I have two of these vixia hf m41 camcorders and use them to make half hour to one hour local community tv programs. The original batteries only last me around an hour or so, and certainly do not last a two or three hour shoot, which are later edited down to half or one hour programs. You must have extra batteries. Get the larger capacity batteries, so you do not have to replace the short-lived batteries and have to stop videoing while you are replacing them. The longer lived batteries stick out from the back of the camcorder, but that is not a bad trade-off, in order to not lose valuable video footage. « Show Less
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For as long as the battery will last. I took a video of a play that lasted over an hour.
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Larry I purchased this item less than a month ago - I video our church services and it takes about an hour and a half and the battery light shows only 2 bars out of 4 used - I estimate 2/12 to 3 hours maybe a little more - keep an eye on you battery bars - I also recommend purchasing a spare battery a little pricey but worth the peace of mine - bye the way the microphone and zoom are excellent I film from rear of church and choir and Preacher come thru great sound and looks. I WOULD RECOMMEND.
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I've never kept a log on exactly how long batteries last but I've been very happy with the performance of these batteries. I expected them to be less than the original Nikon one I have. I can't tell the difference in how long they last. I'm not sure if video takes up more juice (like it does memory cards) but I still can't tell the difference.
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It is Canon's LP-E6 battery and is rechargeable. For shooting photos, it'll last something along the lines of 300-500 shots depending on how you shoot. I don't shoot video, so I couldn't tell you how long they will hold out for video.
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Not good at all............but was just informed to use a lithium battery. Haven't tried that yet. But so far........can only record 5 - 10 seconds of video.
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The main reason I bought this cam was because it takes AA batteries (disposable or rechargeable) I have used energizer lithium and also their e2 titanium batts -which lasted almost two weeks on a backpack trip.