seesingman

Has anyone found a higher capacity battery for the Fuji x-t 20, t-2, etc. than the standard one? I am liking most of this camera except battery life.

SyZyGy Loc: Temple, NH

When I started with the Fuji (XE1, then XT1) I was also disappointedly surprised by how short the battery life was, and bought an extra battery to keep ready in the bottom of my bag.
I then noticed that my battery life increased significantly as it gained cycle experience.
At first I set the camera to mute the rear screen, use eye detection in the EVF and turned off "high performance".
Now I use the rear screen to display settings (like an SLR), the EVF on eye detection and leave high performance on - and am no longer frustrated by battery life surprises. Some, but not all, of this is probably due to changes in my expectation. But the increase is real.
One thing that I do still do (for other reasons as well) is to program a button to take only the next shot in RAW - but otherwise leave RAW off. The jpgs are great and I only use RAW if I have severe issues with White Balance uncertainty or otherwise specifically wish to fiddle with RAW later. This means a lot quicker write time and less pointless power drain.

But it will never equal the SLR battery life. Just forget that.

dyximan

I read an article about the battery life and I recently rented the XT2 and obviously you understand the life is terrible in the Fuji battery but they tell me some third parties are better but I was only able to get to 250 clicks per battery where is in my Nikon 5300 I could get 450to 600, and I am told that the battery draw is so extreme partially because of the digital view in the view finder, which is live via the mirror through the viewfinder on non mirror less cameras