Camera-Accessories Reviews

I had orders 3 of this batteries but all of them can take only few pictures then have to rechange again.

A must for extended sessions of photo taking - the Elph generates a surprising amount of heat. This battery is well engineered, incredibly lightweight and it performs. I've recharged mine 50 or more times and it never seems to develop those "conditioning" problems that other batteries get.

The most helpful advice I give to other Canon Elph owners: to conserve the battery, turn the LCD viewfinder off and just use its optical viewfinder like a regular camera to take pics. After taking a pic, leave the button depressed and it'll pop-up in the LCD after a second for you to review it until you let go. I have yet to even open my backup battery using the camera this way.

This battery lasts about 20 shots with the Canon S100, if you're lucky. You simply have to buy a backup battery if you want to do some serious photo taking. It's a bit pricey, but since no other battery fits the S100, Canon can charge whatever they want. It does a full recharge in about 2 hours and doesn't seem to have a "memory effect" with constant charge and recharge. If the price was less I'll give it 5 stars.

I bought this item thinking that I could use the included battery. Unfortunately the battery only functions when connected to the adapter. What's the point of that?

I guess the reason for using a DC coupler in same slot as the battery pack is to save space, although it would be more convenient to have it built-in to the camera so I don't need to take out the battery when connecting it to AC. Other than that the AC adapter kit works great for me. I just followed the instructions on Using an AC Adapter Kit in the appendices of my SD100 user guide.