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<p>I have two batteries for my 6D and use them in rotation. I very rarely go through more than a quarter capacity in a day, unless I've got the GPS switched on. I tend to leave the battery in the camera because it is never idle for more than a very few days. I swap the battery usually when it gets down to about 40%, and just before swapping I will put the second one on to charge. I don't immediately charge the part used one, rather I wait until I'm about to need it.</p> <p>Sometimes the old ways are best - the NiMH batteries for my 1V-HS cameras just stay in the camera until either they need charged or six months have elapsed since the last charge, Canon recommending they be discharged and charged every six months even if barely used. A full charge is good for about 70 films, and that takes a while to get through, at least for me.</p> <p>One handy tip for maximising battery performance I and others have learned from experience - buy genuine batteries. Copies are cheaper but are more likely to overheat, leak, burst or damage your camera, and they generally don't last long. It's a false economy.</p>

<p>At a purely technical level, there's not a lot of difference between Nikon and Canon, and certainly none visible to the naked eye. There's difference within the manufacturer's range of products in both cases - a Canon 1DX is not designed for the same uses as the 6D, and both are far more capable than a 1200D.</p> <p>Worrying about DxO ratings and counting pixels is silly. The camera of whatever make, shape, size or type is a device with but one purpose - to record, more or less, the image in front of it. That raw digital file is the modern equivalent of the negative. It is a starting point only. You need to process the file just as you need to adjust the image from the negative in the darkroom. Expecting a "perfect" digital file is like wanting a film camera that will always and only produce the perfect negative that can be printed without dodging and burning, without filtering, just straight to paper. Such things don't exist.</p> <p>Keep your Canon stuff. There's nothing wrong with it (disclaimer - I use Canon, for no better reason than that I always have). If the Canon is 0.001% inferior or superior to the Nikon in ways that the human eye cannot discern, what does it matter?</p>