I have been using one of these for my Olympus EM1X bodies for ages - the bodies use two batteries but the inelegant Olympus solution is just to give you two chargers! For reference, li-ion batteries in consumer products typically have 100% at approximately 4.20V/cell, although some of them deviate from that. Canon has released a trio of firmware updates that add new and improved features and functions to its EOS R3, R5 and R6 full-frame cameras. With DSLR's I bought a second charger just to be able to charge 2 batteries. @forest dream: In general batteries don't like being charged quickly, you'll shorten their life by charging quickly, and any risk of overheating (and fire/explosion on unprotected types) is greatly increased by doing so. I don't like to charge in the camera (which quite a few of the included chargers do), 1) you can't charge a separate battery while using the camera. With USB-C power delivery, this could charge at different speeds based on the input. Hhnel claims that a quick 15 minute charge will provide enough power for 150 shots. Save your money. Agree that fast charge will reduce battery life. Find out what we're doing differently. In vehicle charging is a real benefit, not just for cameras. If you're looking for the perfect drone for yourself, or to gift someone special, we've gone through all of the options and selected our favorites. All 3rd party chargers and batteries are better off avoided. Nikons ive bought include them so curious about this. If so, that would be a good reason to always charge them externally. @glenn Do you really think charging someone $20+ for a piece of plastic is 'a more significant economic "crime"' than not including an electrical appliance which is subject to many regulations? But I really can't see this as being any good for a traveller. Typical sub-$5 USB power supplies now can deliver 2A or more to a USB connector. Thanks for the link to AccuBattery. Other brand smartphone phone maker also same include Samsung, OPPO, XiaoMi, OnePlus.. Huawei Super Charge power bank also can fully charge above Huawei smartphone within 1 hour. Product info too, is sketchy and some of their products have compatibility issues. However, I can't get over the price. I don't know who makes Olympus' batteries for them, but I have a date code 2012 one that still is good for 50-60 shots in a pinch. @LanVarious tech used by smartphone maker to reduce impact of battery life. A battery charger review, where Thermal protection is not mentioned at all - something that seems to be the Achilles' heel of many third-party chargers. I received a call within 24 hours and had my questions answered. 4-8 port smart chargers (that do monitor & charge each AA cell individually) are readily available and inexpensive. Exactly, the worst being, if your house burns ! I won't buy Hhnel products anymore. One thing struck me before I started testing, the supplied ejection tool is easily lost; it would have been a good idea to have a way of storing it in the base of the charger. DJI has a new gimbal, and it's compatible with some of the revolutionary accessories from the Ronin 4D. The possibilities are infinite. The Hanhel ProCube 2 is a twin-battery charger that offers user-swappable plates to accommodate batteries from different camera systems. each has a similar LCD display to this model, they are cheap, compact and work fine. Best charger for trips away. It already proof explosion never happen unless use not original cable or charger. 42 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 (directions) 800.223.2500, Hahnel PROCUBE2 Professional Twin Battery Charger for Sony DSLR Cameras, Hahnel PROCUBE2 Professional Twin Battery Charger. As noted several times in these comments, thats the most prevalent source around. It is definitely not slower than on the original Canon charger ans using with or without 5 => 12 Volts adapter makes no difference. For example, you can get a dual NP-FW50 charger with two batteries for about $30; I have several YXWINs that were $25 including pairs of batteries, and they work great. In this buying guide weve rounded up all the current interchangeable lens cameras costing around $2000 and recommended the best. Until now, the offerings from the likes of Delkin, ProGrade Digital and Sony topped out at 160GB. The Sony version that we tested includes the plates to charge Sony NP-FZ100, NP-FW50 and NP-BX1 batteries you can only charge one type of battery at a time. I have bought several dual USB powered chargers off of ebay. I've been using it for almost 2 years and am very happy I bought it. For the expensive two-cell 7.x V (as opposed to 3.x V single-cell) batt' packs, how do they balance the two cells? This time, Sandlin shows how Kodak applies light-sensitive coating to the film support base we saw produced in the first factory tour. The updates don't bring any new features or functionality, but do address a number of bugs present in the company's X-A5, X-A7, X-H1, X-T100 and X-T200 APS-C mirrorless cameras. Not good. Even the Panasonic one bundled with Eneloops is much better. @obsolescence - for Sony, it appears model-dependent whether USB power for taking images works, and given the rather limited power supply via older USB standards, few models would then operate and charge at the same time. Official user manual told me charge in camera body via USB cable. Targeted for contractors, but useful for anyone who needs a lot of stuff charged fast. Have you ever seen a painting come to life, like the portraits in Harry Potter? I hardly ever need to load four equally depleted AA batteries. I have so many of them, it's a chore just to figure out which charger is for which batteries. Analog photographer guru Markus Hofstaetter shows how he merges 21st-century technology with a 20th-century experience to streamline his analog photography workflow. Or Siberia. Olympus do a similar thing, as do Pentax, and Fujifilm used a single battery type for the longest time, only deviating now with the GFX and X-T4. Still you'd better place that third-party stuff on a non-combustible heat-resistant surface, far away from, and not below, anything else that might catch fire. I use the model made for GH5 batteries and find it overall to be really good. Anyone has it for their phone and who needs recharge on the go has also powerbank in their pockets or backpacks. A lot of brands are leaving the charger out now that in-camera charging is standard, including Sony, Pana, and Fuji IIRC My last Oly was an exception, tho OTOH it also uses micro USB charging rather than speedier & more modern USB-C PD Are CaNikon doing in-camera charging with their newer mirrorless bodies? The plate ejection procedure is a little awkward as you need to use a supplied tool or other small-tipped device to release the locking mechanism. If they arent borderline scams they rarely if ever offer the same quality as OEMs. Much better than the one Sony ships with cameras. Makes sense, because apparently Sony's "cable to camera charging" takes a LONG time. As its name implies, the ProCube 2 is a small cube. Sometimes I would ha e to jiggle the battery to ensure charging was enabled. overheat issue happen on A6400) cause cracked plastic part inside camera? What do you think Sigma has in store? Every manufacturer has their "included in the box" game. E.g. I also have one 8-battery and two 4-battery chargers for my AAs for the same reason. P.s. Not really suitable for daily charging of heavily used or mixed sets of cells. Got two of 'em used for around $15 each. It barely survived, but required a new cable. This charger also supports micro USB and USB-C inputs. They also make them for smartphone batteries (if those still have a removable battery :p) Look for the Ansmann PhotoCam Vario or 2-Power Universal Camera Accu Charger in Europe. Hhnel claims that the ProCube 2 can charge two Sony NP-FZ100 batteries from empty to full in three hours and a single battery in two hours, something that well be testing later. Ah, and I just recently bought an AA/AAA charger which deals with each battery separately, because the coupled loading by the previous one I had caused issues sometimes. The saturation charge (the slower part above 70%) is really the most stressful to the battery, with each 0.10V/cell increase above 3.92 roughly halving the lifespan. It's ridiculous. Check out our sample gallery and let us know what you think of its image quality. This reminds me, I've a The Hanhel ProCube 1, in my luggage bag since I moved to NZ a year ago. Although a lot of people only upload images to Instagram from their smartphones, the app is much more than just a mobile photography platform. Thank you for the reply! This has been out for ages, I brought two in Feb 2019. In pratice, the charger guesses the percentage from the measured voltage.Studies show that charging a Li-Ion battery at 90/95 % of its actual capacity can prolong its life by a significant amount, about 2x. It wouldnt cost a dollar to fully power the charger in order to charge two batteries at the maximum rate. Canon's high end APS-C mirrorless camera has plenty of compelling features, but is it worth the price? I couldn't imagine buying a lens that didn't include a hood. Micron's next-generation 232-layer NAND has started shipping. Terrible build and quality control. Note: Sometimes, 100% on the charger doesn't mean 100% in the camera. When you have built in USB charging which isn't that slower that dedicated charger it's a waste to include even USB wall charger. Anyway, I prefer having some spare batteries, and charging my batteries slowly, for a better useful battery life. I find it hilarious that one would buy the B&H house brand (Watson) from Amazon. Best battery charger I've seen. They are 3.85V vs 7.2V. When prepping for a next-day job, simplifying battery maintenance helps, especially if you're using multiple cameras and flashes. Most ebay gadgets are trash to clutter and poison the world over time. With backup batteries for each camera, I use the RavPowers more for top-up during the job. and same thing is now happening to computers with all "updates". When i bought the a7 their was this cable but no charger so I bought this charger and to still charge multible batteries and have the ability to use my camera the same time. Sony have a really nice and well-rationalized battery system: the BX1 is for compacts, the FW50 for enthusiast models and older A7s, the FZ100 for new high-end models, and the FM500H for A-mount cameras. In any case, it's on my desk mostly all the time and it works great for it's main purpose. It also shows detailed information on the FW50 and FZ100 models, including a battery life indicator. It charges the battery twice as fast as the original charger, this means at least twice the current of the original charger which designed for the battery. The voltage across the cell terminals will be slightly higher while charging. Charging time is about 2 times faster than the Panasonic charger, and it clearly shows that all of the 3rd party batteries I've tried can't hold as much juice as the Panasonic OEM batteries do. Nikon has announced the Z30, an entry-level Z-mount camera aimed at vloggers and other content creators. We got our hands on a production version of Canon's entry-level EOS R10 and took it for a spin. Can someone recommend a dual charger that has more than 2 pins to charge so I can be confident it wont over charge and will take these batteries to their higher voltage? I think you forgot (at least) two minuses: charges only one battery type at a time only two-pin connector for Li-Ion batteries instead of OEM 3-pin connection. If youre planning a trip its small enough not to take up too much space in your camera bag and means that you dont have to take a separate AA or USB chargers as well. For you Sony shooters, check out this one, ISDT NP-FZ100 NP-FW50 NP-BX1 Camera Battery Charger Set for Sony Batteries, on Amazon. Hi Paul, how did you go getting replacements under warranty?I've had my original Pro unit for a number of years now with no issue and I bought it used.Luck of the draw I guess. It's a far cry from the conventional lenses you're used to seeing, but it's sure to give you a look, unlike any optic you can purchase online. You can begin realizing your ideas as OpenAI, DALL-E's creator, has opened the AI up for public beta testing. its cheap and the mfr should not be skimping on something like that. Guess what - Hahnel NP-W126 compatible batteries does not have thermal protection either, that the original Fujifilm batteries do have. It also shows percentage readout for each and how much energy it has added since the start of the charge in milliamp hours though it cant show the actual capacity of the batteries unless you are charging from 0%. I have the Olympus version and I use it all the time is great as a charger, it's reliable and the 2 batteries option is very good.What I don't like is that it's very big and heavy, interchangeable plates it's very good, but if you don't need it I prefer something smaller and lighter.I was hoping to see (not only for this product) to come with USB-C connector for power, so it can be used on the road or in a car, with a power bank, etc. As a hint, it's not because they can't work out how to make a fast charger to go with their 64MP 10fps camera ;). As the charger is designed to use 12 volts from the wall there was no change to charge times or functionality in the vehicle. Huawei P30 Pro official battery replacement only cost SGD 24. https://consumer.huawei.com/sg/support/sparepart-price/. 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The Watson Duo gives the same sort of functionality at the same price although it's a bit larger, and the Nitecore USN4 offers dual charging at a lower cost although it lacks some of the features of the Hhnel. Not as tidy as a 2-battery unit but I can still charge 2 at once and if needed I have a backup. I haven't paid attention to that tbh. That still does not justify such a big difference, but comparisons must be made in Wh. On the topic of longevity, that link does say: > Battery users want to know if Li-ion cells with higher charge voltages compromise longevity and safety. It's Glen, one "N" I wouldn't have written it if I didn't 'Really' believe it. look, what they done to smartphones, tablets, now even laptops are going in same directions etc.thank you, nsa.. To be fair, it's hard for me to see how you can keep the phones so thin and have replaceable batteries. I got mine for $10-15 less, and I think I've seen it for $20-25 less than that Amazon link - and it has a USB port for charging mobile devices. On a past trip to Ireland I was able to charge my batteries with the USB port in the bus and with a power block in my bag. It charges all three common Sony battery types at once without the need for plates, it can charge two different battery types at once, its smaller than the Hhnel, and its also much cheaper ($35). Ability to charge two batteries simultaneously, Can accommodate a wide range of batteries via interchangeable plates, LCD panel percentage display sometimes disagrees with camera's estimate. Granted, it does not charge AAA batteries, but those are cheap and compact anyhow. First announced this spring, the new flash storage promises improved performance, more storage, better efficiency and a smaller footprint, allowing it to be utilized in various products, including laptops and smartphones. The latest third party ones I bought new in 2018 are both completely dead, won't even take a charge. The batteries I used were newish original Sony NP-FZ100s and the figures were averaged over three cycles. Charging AAs is interesting, but not being able to use 5V USB is a deal-killer. For fully recharging depleted batteries before or after a job, I rely on the Duos. (more than twice as fast! This second-generation lens is smaller than its predecessor and uses a stepping motor, compared to the linear ultrasonic motors used in Samyang's first-generation 85mm F1.4 AF lens. dont defend it. So with this, i'd still have to bring my ravpower,etc anyways, because it's too serialized as far as charging capability. I really don't see the advantage of having interchangeable plates when you can get multiple dedicated chargers that are still cheaper and smaller overall. Equipping your creativity, since 1974. These are all arranged because of size and capacity. I had a similar quality issue with unit for charging GH5 batteries: seating in the charger was inconsistent. Do Sony batteries have internal balancing circuits? A charger that requires 50% longer to charge two batteries as compared to one is woefully inadequate. Sure this is an important issue, but if third party chargers were burning beyond a reasonable margin of error, they would not be selling. Sorry for responding late. - With the shape of something that will both take more space in the bag AND not fill all the space it will make you loose. I picked up a DeWalt 5 port (2 at plug, 3 remote) with 2 high voltage USB and 3 (2 amp) USB ports. That would add the battery heat to the sensor heat. With three Duo chargers, I don't need yet another OEM block cluttering up my drawers. And I have several power banks of various sizes (large in a bag, small in my pocket). Yeah, for mobile use, I take a RavPower USB dual battery charger or two with one or two Anker 2-port AC>USB power blocks. Get exclusive access to expert tips and special offers. What brands? Fuji's aftermarket battery situation seems somewhat better, but the originals seem still to be the best. Charging current is stated as up to 1700 mA for a single battery and 850 mA each when charging two. Plus, I suspect those rental cameras get banged around. Most modern cameras will shoot video to one degree or another, but these are the ones wed look at if you plan to shoot some video alongside your photos. Makes ZERO sense. Sometimes I don't have several days in advance to prep for a job. The finalists for the annual Comedy Pet Photo Awards have been announced, highlighting the humorous side of our animal companions. For 1/4 of that price, I got a Patona charger with a fairly accurate LCD display. I can buy that on my own. It is a clear indication that you will be bled dry with stupid monetary charges in the future. My travel kit (as a hobbyist) currently includes a USB charger with multiple USB ports (including USB PD). IDK, 4 years ago I got a 2 battery charger for my D750 that plugs in via USB and can charge both batteries (with hand grip) at the same time.
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