D500 battery drain

After 4 days of none use my battery was down to 96% two days later its down to 94%, i have airplane mode on, is this in line with others or will the battery stay at 100% for you.

As far as I am aware, this does not happen with my camera.
However, I will check it this weekend and see if I can reproduce your observation.

Daniel Aegerter said:

As far as I am aware, this does not happen with my camera.
However, I will check it this weekend and see if I can reproduce your observation.

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Thanks, its not something ime worrying about as i make sure its charged before i go out and normally take under 300 images a day,just checking what is normal.

mikew said:

Thanks, its not something ime worrying about as i make sure its charged before i go out and normally take under 300 images a day,just checking what is normal.

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I'm not worried, either.
But curious.

I thought I remembered Jake saying something about a battery drain issue. Did some digging and came up with this thread, Mike. You use a third party lens, don't you?

https://nikonites.com/d500/36639-d5...y-lenses.html?highlight=battery#axzz4vOFTW4PL

hark said:

I thought I remembered Jake saying something about a battery drain issue. Did some digging and came up with this thread, Mike. You use a third party lens, don't you?

https://nikonites.com/d500/36639-d5...y-lenses.html?highlight=battery#axzz4vOFTW4PL

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Thanks Cindy, after reading through the thread i think Jake had a different/more serious issue than me, i did learn something from the thread though, i will fully charge the battery and leave the camera with no lens on,then with the lens fitted but VR off, as my next two steps.

I don't know if it's relevant for either of you but don't some third-party battery grips create this issue? I'm going by memory(!) but I seem to recall there being issues with some previous Nikon body, or bodies, where the battery grip would drain the battery just as you're describing.

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Horoscope Fish said:

I don't know if it's relevant for either of you but don't some third-party battery grips create this issue? I'm going by memory(!) but I seem to recall there being issues with some previous Nikon body, or bodies, where the battery grip would drain the battery just as you're describing.

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You could be right but i dont use any form of battery grip.

My D500 will show 98% when I put a fully charged battery in. After that, though, I'm not seeing the kind of daily drain you are. I get 2000 shots or so per battery, and usually change out the battery well before it is fully drained.

Woodyg3 said:

My D500 will show 98% when I put a fully charged battery in. After that, though, I'm not seeing the kind of daily drain you are. I get 2000 shots or so per battery, and usually change out the battery well before it is fully drained.

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Not looked at what it says when i first put it in but will do next time,will charge it first thing in the morning and start some logical tests, ie no lens,lens with VR turned off, my main concern is someone on another forum has just had the 500 back to Nikon for battery drain and they had it for 43 days.

Update it was at 92% yesterday and i put airplane mode on and its still 92% this morning,dont know if thats the answer will still test further.

I think it was just wi-fi and things draining about 2% a day, took it out this morning @ 92% took 140 shots and it was 87% when i returned home, so that does not look like excessive battery drain, its now in air plane mode so unless i have further concern i will leave it at that.
Thanks for everyone's input.

Having to backtrack, battery fitted 18 hours ago and it showed 100%, airplane mode on and its now down to 95%, will retry today with no lens fitted.

OK, so I put 2 fully charged batteries into the camera and the battery grip (Nikon original) and it seems that even after a few hours the batteries are down to 98%. A few more hours, it shows 96%.
However, I have never checked that before and never thought that I don't get enugh shots per battery.
It seems an interesting observation without any implications for me so far.

mikew said:

After 4 days of none use my battery was down to 96% two days later its down to 94%, i have airplane mode on, is this in line with others or will the battery stay at 100% for you.

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This link may or may not help you. The problem sounded identical to yours.
https://photographsbypeter.com/2017...in-problem-solved-with-firmware-version-1-13/

NealB said:

This link may or may not help you. The problem sounded identical to yours.
https://photographsbypeter.com/2017...in-problem-solved-with-firmware-version-1-13/

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Thanks sounds good i will try it.

Just done the update and have the battery on charge again, i am always a bit nervous about Nikon firmware updates as i use Sigma lenses.

I just Purchased a used D500 from B&H, have had the flu so have not been able to really go shoot with it, I have thu found it seems it has terrible battery life compared to any other nikon ive had, I have almost thought about returning it, it seems the battery would be completely drained within a few hours if I was shooting race action, where as I shoot all day with the D3S I have, I have just completed the firmware update, I have now enabled airplane mode hoping this helps...

so after the firmware update I have the camera sitting powered on and idle, after less than 1 hour battery already dropped to 77% so not happy with that at all....

charged both batteries last night/this morning, both dead after todays shoot, didnt take that many shots, 60 shots on the new battery and i had 52% left, last Sept i took 1700 shots on one battery so i have something going on?? 35% now on 125 shots, Airplane mode is enabled.