My batteries are lasting shorter and shorter times. I had to change batteries after only 40 pics. Is it a camera problem or cheap batteries? I normally use the CRV3 batteries, but have been using AA's. Is this the reason why?

Battery life really depends on a lot of things the amount of use you are giving the LCD screen, the temperature you are using the camera in meaning the colder it is the shorter the battery life, not all batteries are created equal and most "no name" brands are lacking in staying power. Your camera is able to work with rechargeable batteries Ni-MH AA's will last at least three times the length of the Alkaline types. You can buy a set of four rechargeable batteries with their charger fairly inexpensively and will pay for themselves very quickly because you can keep charging them.

Questions to ask yourself...is the card almost full of pictures? Is the card "cheap"? Is the card less than a class 4. When was the last time you formatted the card in the camera after downloading the pics from it? How are your batteries?

Digital cameras EAT batteries. Buy only the best. If you don't mind paying a lot, use lithium batteries. They last longer but, the price doesn't actually make them a savings. They are only more convenient. If you have rechargeable, they lose their ability to accept a full charge after a while. Once they've been charged about 400 times, their life gets shorter each time you use them.

The cam to pc USB cables are cheap and available at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Just count the number of pins in the cam side of the cable to get the right one. Choose DELETE AFTER DOWNLOADING in Windows.

Use the best name brand batteries you can find. Energizers and Duracell work best. Chance the size of your pictures to the smallest you can. At 300 X 300, you can still make 8 X 10 enlargements clearly. The larger the pic, the more power it takes to process it.

This camera is noteworthy for this problem. Only non-rechargeable batteries seemed to work, and that gets expensive! But the solution for me was simple. You have to spend a little more money upfront, and get high capacity (e.g. 2450 mAh) batteries. You should be able to get those at Target or Walmart. The 2100 mAh ones just won't do the job.

Using the cheap, low capacity rechargeable batteries, I could only get a few shots off. With the high capacity ones, I can do 40 or so easily.

try rechargeble batteries. i switch to rechargeble batteries and they last much longer than regular batteries.

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Sounds like your memory card may be faulty. Take no more pics until you've recovered the missing photos, take the card out of the camera. Here's some freeware photo recovery software that should be what you're looking for (recommend the last one listed):
http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/recovering-those-accidentally-lost.html

You will need to use a flash card reader with this software. If you don't have one, get one, they're cheap:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=card+reader&rs=172282&page=1&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acard+reader&sort=price

And finally, recommend formatting the card in the camera after you've recovered the pictures. Look for a "Low Level" format option in the camera's menus. The format should help prevent this from happening again.

For some reason, Fuji does not emphasize that if your batteries get low, this is what happens. You just need recharged batteries or new batteries. Be careful with rechargables--before recharging them when this happens, you first have to drain them using the discharge mode of your camera. Then they will take a complete charge. (Good for some 300 charges or so, I believe.) But if you don't discharge them first, they will take less and less of a charge, and last shorter and shorter. If you use regular batteries, they might not last for 50 pics before running out of juice.

You need to begin using rechargeable batteries immediately. Look for nickle metal hydride (NiMH) cells that are at least 1800 mah and preferrably more than 2000 mah. Get two sets and a charger. Print this and take it with you. You can buy these at any electronics store. You'll need to charge the batteries before you can use them. And they don't really give you full life until they've been charged and discharged a couple of times. In other words, the first few times, you'll get a shorter life cycle before they run down. But you should see a marked improvement almost immediately.