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Using the Battery Info command

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Using the Battery Info command

Your Mark III battery will get you through a lot of shooting on a single charge, but your battery will wear out over time. You can get some status info about your battery by going here to the Battery info. command, which is on the third page of the setup menu. This gives me a few different pieces of data. First, it tells me the name of my battery; the type of the battery, which is an LP-E6. So if you're at the camera store, or going online to order a new battery, that's what you are going to want to order. It tells me that currently my battery has 27% of its power remaining, and I have taken 20 pictures with it. Now, this is not a total running shutter count. If you are looking for the total number of shutter actuations that you have on the camera, because maybe you want to sell it or something, this is not how you're going to get it, because this number is reset every time you recharge the battery. It also tells me what it thinks about its recharging performance, and this is a scale…

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