Get The Most From Your Batteries

Don't run out of power before you run out of pictures

By Jon Sienkiewicz

Published September 1, 2007
Updated October 17, 2016

I’m the first to admit being a bit compulsive about batteries. I condition them, charge them, check them and clean their terminals when necessary. I even label them with the date they went into service. I attached a power strip to one end of a workbench and use it exclusively to feed my rechargeables. Before you yell, "Get a life!" understand that I’ve never—not even once—run out of power before I ran out of pictures.

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