Fuji S5700/S700 Battery drain when turned off

I recently bought a Fuji S5700 (UK name for the S700) and a 2Gb SD
card. Very nice for what I want it for, but one serious snag -
rechargable NiMh batteries completely discharge after about a day with
the camera just sitting in its case, turned off.

Eventually I found a single reference to this issue - in a customer
review at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830122110.
It turns out that this issue only happens if you use SD cards - it's
fine with XD cards. I've now got a 2Gb XD "Type H" card and the
batteries last for ever.

Annoyingly this isn't mentioned in the manual, so I thought I'd post
this to hopefully save others the price of an SD card!

--
Colin

Colin wrote:
> I recently bought a Fuji S5700 (UK name for the S700) and a 2Gb SD
> card. Very nice for what I want it for, but one serious snag -
> rechargable NiMh batteries completely discharge after about a day with
> the camera just sitting in its case, turned off.
>
> Eventually I found a single reference to this issue - in a customer
> review at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830122110.
> It turns out that this issue only happens if you use SD cards - it's
> fine with XD cards. I've now got a 2Gb XD "Type H" card and the
> batteries last for ever.
>
> Annoyingly this isn't mentioned in the manual, so I thought I'd post
> this to hopefully save others the price of an SD card!
>
> --
> Colin
Sounds weird, maybe Fuji didn't know about it when they wrote the manual.
Dave Cohen