Jason Ducharme wrote:
Hi,

I am currently in South Korea and have been looking for rechargeable
alkaline batteries for my digital camera. It's an HP 620 and is
supposed to run on 4 x AA Alkaline batteries. Back in North America I
was using rechargeable alkaline batteries that I bought at Walmart,
but I can't find these anywhere over here.

I have, however, found rechargeable AA NiCD and NiMH batteries. Is it
ok to go ahead and use these in place of the alkalines, or will this
damage my camera?

Thanks in advance,

Jason Ducharme

Hi Jason...

Photography is my life long hobby; digital for the last
several years... many cameras

Buy yourself a set of NiMh's - I guarantee you won't
be sorry; you'll never look back

Don't even consider NiCad's, they won't work at all.
(the camera will "say" they're dead even when fully
charged)

And while you still have only one set of NiMh's,
save a set of the "dead" alkalines. Put them
in the camera while the NiMh's are recharging
so that the camera doesn't forget it's settings.
(Even virtually dead batteries will do, it requires
very little to save the settings)

Oh, one more tiny thing... I'm a way overprotective
grandfather, so if you have youngsters in your
life keep them away from the NiMh's. And while
they're not in the camera store them properly
so they can't possibly short anything, like each
other, or keys in the pocket, etc. The internal
impedance is so low that they'll dump trememdous
current for a short while. (I have a burn mark on
my leg to prove it)

Hope this helps, lemme know if you can use more info.

Take care.

Ken