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Just wondering if when you get a new battery for your SLR you need to 'break it in'? It's being charged now, but discharging it several times before I go away would be a real pain as they tend to last a fairly long time and I have nothing to photograph here...

Do you need to?

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:


Doesn't it say in the instructions? - it did for me.

In reply to abseil:

Ok just found the instructions buried in between two layers of the cardboard lol... it just says "Battery is not fully recharged upon shipment, recharge before using".

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:

Still not sure, does that mean I don't have to break it in to achieve its full potential?

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:

The topic's discussed on these pages:

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/article/g699vd85/getting-start...

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/906612

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/battery-life.htm

http://darrellyoung.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/nikon-d7000-battery-tips.html

Hope this might help, and good luck!