The rechareable batteris from Moultrie work great in this camera. I used a regular one the first go round and it drained it in no time. As far as the camera goes I've had some issued with it. Picture quality is great but I've had problems with it taking pics. I set it up on the same tree as my homebrew and it missed 9 pictures. All 9 of those were deer walking perpidicular to the camera at around 25-30 feet. I read some places that guys were having the same problems so to fix it they were having better luck setting the camera around 20 inches off the ground. I tried this the past week and had much better results. I had more pictures this week then the past 4 combined. It could be dumb luck from just using a different trail but I believe the camera needs to be lower than most.