Tag: Batteries
Choosing the right accessories is as important as selecting a camera
and lenses. There are so many creative possibilities of which you
simply can’t take advantage without certain pieces of gear—filters,
tripods and unique extras like underwater housings.
The moment you're running out of room on your memory card in the middle of the Sequoia National Forest isn't the time to start thinking about getting a portable hard drive—especially when the light and the weather is perfect and you're missing some great shots!
During the first few generations of digital cameras, you couldn’t help
but pay a lot of attention to batteries. Early-model cameras were
notoriously power-hungry, burning through a full charge in minutes, not
hours. It was left to the battery manufacturers to develop
longer-lasting, faster-charging power sources that could keep shooting
for a reasonable period of time.
As digital photographers, we enjoy the freedom of working with a
flexible, creative medium. Without batteries, though, our cameras and
flash units would become high-tech paperweights. With the development
of new batteries and chargers, there’s now a great variety of power
sources from which to choose. They offer vastly better performance than
our old familiar standards. Here’s how to choose among them, and how to
get the best out of your batteries in the field.
