Digital Camera Home > The Great Battery Shootout  The Great
Battery Shootout! by Dave Etchells   (This article no longer
maintained)  For about three years, I conducted extensive tests
of battery capacity of rechargeable AA NiMH batteries. This was
always more of a hobby than anything, as it never helped pay the
rent, and I had to steal time away from camera review writing
and editing to do it. Over time, as much as I enjoyed the
battery testing, it was harder and harder to justify the time it
took, and as time went on, more and more cameras used
proprietary LiIon batteries, so interest in battery performance
waned. Bottom line, I stopped testing batteries and maintaining
this page back in 2005. :-(  While the battery test results are
dated, the notes about my test setup and controlling test
variables are as valid as when I first wrote them, and should be
of use to anyone wanting to conduct battery testing of their
own. Enjoy, and good luck on your own battery-testing
endeavours!  The Short of It  This is one