man hate to hear that, my wife bought me a camera last year(feb) and it has taken 280+ pictures and i'm on my 3rd set of batteries 6aa. hope you get some satisfaction mine is a photoscout by highlander sports, made local, and my wife knew somebody and anyway its my first and what i ended up with, this was not the kind of gift i would buy for myself but since i've gotten it, it is the neatest thing...anyway this is my first time fooling with a game cam, but i would really think you would get more life out of the batteries, oh by the way i went and bought batts for when ivan went thru, guess what the batteries are more than the radio i was buying them for....