katherineivey Loc: Corinth, Texas

With my Canon 80D and others before it, I used to go all day without turning it off. Never had a battery problem or any other issue. Now that I have upgraded to the Canon r5 mirrorless, I do power off during periods of not shooting. The battery drains noticeably faster, and even slowly drains when stored away with the power off for a couple of weeks. This happens even though I have switched off a couple of battery hogging features such as continuous focus. I only use Canon batteries and I can still go all day on one fully charged battery because I generally take 100 to 200 photos per day when on vacation. Love my R5!!!

pecohen Loc: Central Maine

Breaking old habits is always difficult. Whether you are in the habit of leaving the camera on between shots or in the habit of powering the camera off, changing the habit will be challenging.

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

I agree. Sony is on and off

National Park

I generally keep the switch on when I am out and about shooting except I turn it off while I am switching to a different lens.

david.udin

Not really. Yes, the evf and back screen drain the battery when they are on, but we are talking about using the auto-power-off feature of many cameras, and most of the comments indicate very low drain in the auto-power-off state, because the evf and screen (as well as most everything else) are off in the auto-power-off state.

I had a problem with my Fuji X-T3 because various articles about various Fuji cameras had indicated that pressing any button would turn it back on, but I had found that pressing any button didn't turn it on, so I would just turn it off and on to get it out of this state. This thread motivated me to do a little googling, and I found out that, on the X-T3 with the latest firmware upgrade, a *full* shutter press turns it back on--tried it and it works. Maybe Fuji determined that pressing any button was happening accidentally too often, so changed to just the shutter button, and a full press so just brushing against it won't turn the camera on.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

I’m on vacation as I type in Sicily using my Canon G1x iii as my goto travel camera. I start each day with a fully charged battery and shoot about 150 images per day. For each, a raw and a med jpeg are written to the card. For the most part, I’m not using the rear LCD. On the days, I let the camera shut itself off, the battery only had 1 narrow bar left, except for one day when the camera shut itself down. On the other days, I turned the camera off between shots unless I planned on shooting a number of others in short order. At the end of those days, the battery icon is still showing a full charge (even though, it isn’t). I had eco mode turned on for all days and viewfinder off after 1 minute.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

The battery indicator indicating "full charge" is relative.
For a four bar battery indicator, it's USUALLY:
1 - 0-25%
2 - 25-50%
3 - 50-75%
4 - 75-100%

So you could be down to 80% and four bars will still show.

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

Hmm . . . I'd never really considered this question prior to your post. Very interesting comments. Thanks for the question. After reading thru the various responses, I may reconsider my actions while out shooting.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

True, at the end of the days when I powered down after almost every shot, it took about an hour of evening charging to get the “green” light. Today was another day of seeing the same thing. We’re currently 8 hrs ahead of my home state, Colorado.

iSilentP Loc: Ohio

With dSLRs I've never found it to be an issue. On Mirrorless (Fuji for me) I tend to be in the habit of turning off between shots, unless I know a shot may be down the road. I usually keep the LCD off and have also set the EVF to come on when camera senses it's on my face. YMMV. And yes. extra batteries is a no-brainer with mirrorless--better safe than sorry. A lot of times I even turn the power switch off in the middle of the camera still writing its buffer to the memory card and never had any issues.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Lucky you? Well written camera software? (Completes an operation in progress before shutting down.)
I prefer to wait, just in case...

hrblaine

>Always carry more than one spare battery.

I always carry a spare battery and a spare card and I never ran into a problem. (Always carried my spare battery in my shirt pocket. Kept it warm in colder weather under my jacket. Card in my pants pocket.) Harry