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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kimberly Walker" data-source="post: 54888" data-attributes="member: 9494"><p>I have read the same posts from many people and was thinking they were nutty. I use the view finder so thought that was the difference since I have taken over 2000 photos over the course of an 8 hour outting and still not needed to change the battery.....WELL, about 2 weeks ago I was out and got 60 photos before the battery died, so I inserted my other freshly charged battery and got about 50 shots! Ok, so this was not right, so I recharged the batteries and tried again, same thing....I was mad and everyone was telling me...thats how it is. I finally went to the local camera place to get a new battery and a guy was in there who over heard me talking about what was going on. He told me to replace my charger. WHAT? it was working...blinked red then finished charging and went steady. He told me to trust him, he had seen the issue many times. SO I bought a charger that not only charges the batteries for the D3100 but charges ANY DSLR camera battery (just in case) I came home, charged both batteries, and went out shooting. I shot for 8 hours and had over 2000 shots and still not completely dead. So, he was right.....He said a lot of people had these issues right from the start and just take it that you only get a couple hours and a few hundred shots.  Might try charging on a different charger and see if that works. (If I use live view it will eat the battery at about 450 shots and a couple hours- But I never use live view)</p></blockquote><p></p>

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