What is the standby life of a Li-ion battery in a digital camera?
I have a Sony DSC-W180. I found that quite regularly, when I went to use it, it would be flat. My previous experience with the same model (which got stolen) suggested that standby life is long enough to be irrelevant. Probably months.
I took it to the shop, they took it in and an engineer phoned me to say the camera was fine, and it had taken 100 photos. I pleaded with the man, but to no avail.
I picked it up, installed the battery, took about 35 photos (mostly without flash). I then left it for 2.5 days and it was completely dead.
I’ve recently looked on-line and found that the battery is meant to take 290 photos. So I’m already irked with the clown engineer who tried to fob me off, but was wondering if anyone else had user experiences of standby battery life?
You can never count on what they say on their website since they measure that number in some unreal situations (no flash, no viewfinder, no extra fancy features, full charged battery , etc) so actually that rate is the ideal number which can’t be available to us as consumers.
But I do have a Sony W-100 which stays the same amount you mentioned for yours, like 2 or 3 days in standby mode and if I take pictures the charge is good for like 50 pictures at most and then I need to recharge the battery.
One more thing is that, how old is your battery and camera? since they all have Li-ion batteries and when this type of battery reached a certain number of charge / discharge it starts loosing charge sooner and drains more often and it’s time to buy a new battery !
Hope this one helps 
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