I have a 1d with a few years and its a great piece of kit but it eats batteries be luckey to get 200 pics from a battery some days 120 and i have tried canon and spurious ones the non canon ones being better i bought a Quantum Turbo 2+2 so it is a help but its that bit heavy for lugging around with a lot of other gear going into the wood for rallys etc.

Ger

ps My buddies all have mk2 and they get 3 events per battery 3 would hardly shoot 700 pics for me sometimes 500 a days shooting,   

My Nikon D3 gets 2000 shots per charge, Its a god sent.

Are you using old batteries in your 1D or are thye brand new, Im sure you already know batteries deteriorate over time.

new old they all seem crap two have hit the bin.have 3 at present

If its a 1d or 1d mk2 then it uses a NiMH battery that even new do not do the same amount of shooting as a same power Li-Ion (that new cameras come with)

As well as this all rechargeable batteries have a life of approx 1000 charges give or take so eventually they will hold no charge.

This sounds like the problem to me.

B

2 batteries are new and the other is no where near 100 charges

I had the same problem with my previous camera and  was advised to completely drain the batteries a few times - fully charge and 100% drain again - especially new batteries - helps them charge/retain properly. It did seem to make some difference.

Now a D300 owner and wow! what battery life :-) sorry:-(

Alan

Went to the autosport show last year and had a discussion about the 1d with a fellow photographer said he had much the same problems (batteries) but he also had the problem of his one locking up this never happened mine.

it seems to be a problem just wondered did other people here suffer the same live with it or buy a mk2 and a 580 flash and a new 28- 80 2.8 and a light box and and and.

it never ends.

Ger 

Yes, although I don't have one I've heard other people say this is a 'feature' of the mkI version.

That said, everything else seems good. I borrowed one a few weeks ago and shot the first half of a football match with it. Have to say that the focusing system is superb, and the four megapixel sensor means you get lots of pics on a memory card. The other thing I noticed that it seems to produce really vibrant, high quality jpeg files 'straight out of the camera'. Have heard other people say this too - something to do with the type of sensor it uses, which was changed in later cameras to a cheaper version.

I guess the simple answer is to get a few extra batteries to carry around with you.

Cliff