Why does my digital camera drain batteries, and how can I solve it?

Hey, lately, my digital camera has been draining batteries. It is an HP Photosmart M415 and on the batteries it says: 700mAh Ni-Cd Rechargeable. It is very annoying to have to put the batteries in the recharger for fourteen hours just to take two pictures so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Several people suggest using higher power batteries, so that sound like a good place to start. But...

Do you have an optical viewfinder? Turn off the monitor and use it if you do. LCD monitors are battery hungry devices. The longer you leave it on, the quicker the batteries will drain. If you MUST use it, set it to turn off after the minimum time offered, such as 5 or 10 seconds. Don't spend too much time reviewing your pictures on your camera. Save that for the computer when you can use a card reader and not drain your camera batteries.

If you do not use rechargeable batteries, get Energizer e2 LITHIUM batteries (or the Duracell equivalent) and you will get much better battery performance. go for 2000MAh batteries. 700mAh is very less i used to have same experiance but i can get only few snaps.

2000mAh batteres better.

All Digital cameras are like that. The Nickel Cadmium are good because they're rechargeable. Get some of the Energizer e2 Lithium Ion. I've been using them in my digital camera for years. They're the best I have found yet. Also I'm not a brand partial person. I just have found these to work the best for this situation. the problem might be your battery.