Category: batteries

Here’s how to manage cables, chargers and batteries when traveling

Dunja Djudjic

If you enjoy traveling with photo gear, you know how annoying it is to manage all the chargers, cables and batteries. Even the cameras from the same manufacturer have different batteries and chargers, not to mention other electronics like smartphones, laptops and so on. This is why photographer David Bergman gives you a couple of […]

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Quick Tip: How to never lose track of charged & discharged batteries again

John Aldred

Keeping track of batteries is a pain. We have to change them so much more often in our cameras now. Especially since the advent of live view LCDs and video. So, most of us keep a well stocked supply of spares, particularly with small juice suckers like action cameras. But when you go out to […]

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Stanford boffins develop Lithium Ion battery with built in fire extinguisher

John Aldred

Lithium based batteries power a lot of stuff these days. Phones, cameras, laptops, and even vehicles. There’s a lot of “best practise” advice out there when dealing with Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries, but it’s not common knowledge. Most consumers don’t know how to look after their batteries. Or that there even are suggested ways to […]

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Quick Tip: How to get X12 more time than the Sony camera battery

Udi Tirosh

If you are shooting with a Sony camera, you know that they eat and spit batteries faster than I eat M&Ms. One trivial options is carry another set of batteries (though originals are about $45 each). What I am doing is using off the shelf power banks to run the Sony for much longer than its […]

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Power your camera for days on a battery that takes seconds to charge

John Aldred

Now this is an idea I think we can all get behind. Anything that keeps us charged faster and for longer while out shooting can’t be bad. So, imagine being able to go out and shoot as much as you want for as long as you want without having to worry about your battery life […]

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Why batteries is something you want to buy original (even at exuberant pricing)

Udi Tirosh

One thing that really irritates me is the price that camera makers put on their batteries. I mean an original battery for a sony A7II costs about $53, the same battery from a third party costs about $13, that’s quite a difference isn’t it? For the price of one original battery, you can get four […]

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This is how you build a portable charger case to answer all your power needs

Udi Tirosh

If you are shooting on location (and even if not) you must have a ton of batteries to power your production war-horse. The camera takes batteries, the lights take batteries, remotes, phones, monitors. Actually, most devices take more than one battery. And every battery set want their own charger. And every charger want it’s out […]

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Infographic shows how much time, money and environment rechargeable batteries save compared to alkaline

Gannon Burgett

As a way to promote their Powerex 2700 mAh AA rechargeable batteries, Maha Energy has shared an interesting infographic detailing how effective rechargeable batteries are compared to their alkaline counterparts. As a disclaimer, it’s worth noting that the numbers provided in the infographic were derived from testing done by Maha Energy, meaning it wasn’t a […]

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Last weekend’s NFL playoff game was so cold that camera batteries started freezing

Gannon Burgett

I’ve shot many football games in my life. At times, my camera’s batteries have lost charge more quickly than usual, but never before have my batteries actually frozen to the point where they won’t even turn on. But that’s exactly what happened this past weekend during the NFL Playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and […]

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