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1. 1/4" is a common, but terrible option. The suggestion is to replace it with a builtin plate for the current status-quo, the common Arca-Swiss mount. 2. Opti
by arghwhat 9y ago
1. 1/4" is a common, but terrible option. The suggestion is to replace it with a builtin plate for the current status-quo, the common Arca-Swiss mount.
2. Optical remotes aren't for selfies. Smartphones on stupid sticks are for selfies.
3. Most new cameras have WiFi. It doesn't affect battery life when you're not using it. They're just usually really slow, so picture upload/sync that should take 1 min tops take 1 hour instead.
Remote live-view and exposure/focus control works quite well, though, as it doesn't need that much bandwidth. There's also BLE, which in my camera allows remote control from smartphone without affecting battery life in any measurable way (BLE consumption is negligible).
4. Camera batteries are insanely expensive (and no, they don't contain anything magic or special, unlike what they want you to believe—apart from DRM, they're completely standard batteries worth about $20 retail when branded), they're DRM'd to avoid third-party manufacturing (which leads to more recent battery copies being unable to show charge level due to skipping this circuitry), they're often change shape just to force you to buy new batteries and chargers instead of reusing them, they don't support common charging specs (USB and Qi, for example—it would be practical to be able to juice up the camera while its in the bag between shootings), ...
There is nothing but battery problems.
- petepete 9y agoDuracell make a really wide range of camera batteries that all come with a 3 year warranty. http://www.duracelldirect.co.uk/ http://www.duracelldirect.co.uk/
- arghwhat 9y agoOthers do too (Watson, Wasabi, ...), but they're all made by reversing the bloody DRM, and those companies state that they're having problems reverse-engineering the DRM of the newer batteries (the actual battery management/protection circuitry is entirely standardized, and costs nothing). LP-E17 is an example of a still non-reversed battery. Duracell doesn't have one, and those that do sell third-party clones pretend to be the DC adapter battery dummy to make things work, resulting in no battery gauge. Why would camera manufacturers do that? So they can force you into paying 60 USD for the extra batteries you need to have. Preferably multiple times, as you change camera bodies. I would imagine that if they lowered their crazy income margin, people would buy more original batteries, even if they kept the DRM. Instead, people buy good third-party batteries for 1/6th of the price, sometimes giving up on the battery gauge to do so.
- petepete 9y agoYes, it's the highest order of shitty behaviour. For the record, I have two Duracell EN-EL15's and they both work (including the gauge) with my Nikon D500.
- rrauenza 9y agoAmazon doesn't seem to stock these in the US. But Batteries Plus does, https://www.batteriesplus.com/replacement/battery/nikon/enel15/cam10589 https://www.batteriesplus.com/replacement/battery/nikon/enel... But it's the same price as B&H's Nikon? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/735929-REG/Nikon_27011_EN_EL15_Lithium_Ion_Battery_1000mAh.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/735929-REG/Nikon_2701... ...And the Duracell has less 84% of the maH. I've had success with Wasabi.