topic Re: battery charge indicator in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

battery charge indicator

aces101 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:55:01 GMT

does 1 line in square mean 50% charged and 2 lines mean full? talking about lcd screen for indication of charge percent.. ref eos t4i.

Re: battery charge indicator

Skirball — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:24:32 GMT

Did they change it on the T4i? All my Canons have always had 3 or 4 bars in the indicator. And it's not linear in the least. By the time it's on it's last bar mine have always meant "change me, or I'm going to die in the middle of you shooting something".

Re: battery charge indicator

aces101 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:31:26 GMT

only remember seeing 2 small black lines.

Re: battery charge indicator

Skirball — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:32:17 GMT

Interesting. That's odd they'd do that. I think it's safe to say that it's not calibrated in the least. And, it will slowly change as your battery life winds down. My guess would be that by the time it gets to the second (last) bar that it's much less than half. I wouldn't stress it, you'll learn how to interpret the indicator through use.

Re: battery charge indicator

TCampbell — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:25:15 GMT

I'm checking the diagram for your camera. The battery status should appear in the upper left corner of the rear LCD.

On a fully charged battery you should see a battery icon with three blocks inside. One is larger than the other two and should be the first to disappear as the battery drains. It appears to represent "roughly" half the battery power. The other two are smaller.

My bodies (I don't have a T4i) have 4 blocks inside the battery icon to "roughly" show each 25% of capacity.

Battery capacity is a bit like the fuel guage on a car (I live in Detroit and worked in the automotive industry for years). The engineers will tell you the ONLY requirement of a fuel guage is that if the tank is actually "full" then the fuel guage has to read full. If the tank is actually empty then the fuel guage MUST read empty (that's required). Everything in between is only an estimate.

If you're pushing it to the last block of power then you'd want to make sure you have a spare battery charged and ready to go. You might also want to invest in a battery grip (which holds two batteries). This not only doubles your capacity, but it also makes the camera a lot more comfortable to grip and repeats several key controls when shooting vertically.

Re: battery charge indicator

aces101 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:42:26 GMT

my indicator is lwr left. thanks for the advice

Re: battery charge indicator

Skirball — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:11:50 GMT

Looks like it has three bars to me:

Re: battery charge indicator

aces101 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:24:47 GMT

I am older so my eyes are probably shot, I only see 2 lines. I haven't had my eyes checked lately tho. as least it looks like the indicator is on the lwr left.

Re: battery charge indicator

Priya — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:07:04 GMT

After showing full charge.. I put the battery in the camera but it shows only 2 bars.. What doea it mean??

Re: battery charge indicator

Waddizzle — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:58:19 GMT

@Priya wrote:
After showing full charge.. I put the battery in the camera but it shows only 2 bars.. What doea it mean??

Bad battery, most likely.

Re: battery charge indicator

RobertTheFat — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:02:52 GMT

@Waddizzle wrote:
@Priya wrote:
After showing full charge.. I put the battery in the camera but it shows only 2 bars.. What doea it mean??
Bad battery, most likely.

Or a bad charger.

Re: battery charge indicator

Priya — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:43:34 GMT

How many bars it should be there??

Re: battery charge indicator

Danny — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:15:59 GMT

Hi, Priya! Here's a look at the battery level indicator for the EOS Rebel T4i as shown in the instruction manual. Hope this helps!

Re: battery charge indicator

John_ — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:35:21 GMT

At best the battery level indicator is a guesstimate and the manual for the T4i( and others ) proves that. This is from the T4i manual. As already mentioned if you put a fully charged battery in and it reads 2 bars and not full then it is time for a new battery.