Too cold to use batteries?

People

I have an a80 Canon and housing

Dived in 4 deg centigrade but the camemra woudl not work. says that batteries need chraging but they were fully charged before the dive.

When I got out of the water the camera a was fine and could take pictures.

The housing is water tight.

Do I need different batteries due to the water temp?

Anyother ideas?

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Deano

Hi,

While I've not been to 4C, I have been in 8C water with my Canon A80 with the Canon enclosure and it worked fine. I too use rechargables (Rayovac NiMH) and even though I wasn't in as cold of water I was under for over an hour with the camera and it worked fine (usually the problem with these cameras is overheating in the water if you use the flash a lot so they're normally self-heating). I'd take a look at your batteries though. You didn't say how long you've had them or how many times they've been charged. I'm sure that the cold played a factor in the operation of them and maybe it was just too much for a set of old batteries. If you have a newer set, you might experiment with putting your camera in a sink with ice water (make sure you have on thermo protection) and test your camera again. It may have been just a fluke or the batteries may be at the end of their recharge life.

Hope this helped,

Randall