My use of the NX5U is sporadic…and to avoid losing my clock settings and other internal settings, I usually take the camera out every 3 months and connect it to the AC adaptor (not on the charge setting, but the camera setting). I make sure the NX5U is powered off…and then I let the camera sit for 24 hours. This is the suggested info per the manual.

Lately I find that 3 months is not doing the trick, because when I take the camera out for a shoot, it has lost the internal settings.

So I tried doing the recharge of the internal battery every 2 months…and the internal battery won't last that long.

Am about to try every 5 weeks and see if that can retain the settings.

The internal battery is now about 3 years old…and probably can't retain a charge like it used to.

I am wondering if others have had similar results? I could always attach a fully charged battery and let it do a slow drain while attached to the camera in storage…that of course will retain internal settings for as long as the battery would last.

Thanks for any advice others can share…John

John,

I just ran across your post and I am having the same issues. I see nobody ever responded. Did you ever find a solution to your problem?

Thanks.

David

I'm curious now?

I was talking to a Sony tech only yesterday and he mentioned something odd about a number of Sony camera models and that is that they WILL NOT charge the backup battery from the mains. You have to put a fully charged battery on the cameras to charge the backup battery. I can't recall now as I didn't really need the info but he said the battery had to be on the camera for quite some time. I seem to recall it was a fairly lengthy period. If you don't have any luck leaving a fully charged battery on the camera for a day or so post back and I will try and chase this tech down. This info partially stayed in my mind because it just sounded odd at the time. Go figure!

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney