Beck wrote:

My Fuji S5500 has a battery discharge option (for NiMH). I have been having
a problem with a set of batteries. I have two sets of the same brand both
purchased at the same time and both used in same quantities. One of the
sets rapidly loses its charge once charged. It starts moaning and giving
red lights after only about 10 pictures.
So I decided to try the discharge function to see if it could kick start the
batteries to maybe charging properly again. Except that this discharge has
been going on for several hours now and no indication of stopping. This
tells me that maybe the batteries do not have a short life after all but
perhaps there is something going on with the camera.
Any ideas to the problem please?


Some discharge cycles can take overnight because they really discharge
the batteries slowly.

I would suggest just buying another set of batteries and see if that
fixes your problem. If not, then you can look into a possible camera
problem. I have tried many brands of batteries and some of them (even
with high current ratings) just don't work well in cameras. In some
cases, I think the vendors lie (especially for "off" brands) about the
current ratings.
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