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Road trip power

Road trip power

- For many photographers, their photography involves travel, and my favorite way of traveling for photography is a road trip, but of course, when you're traveling by car, it can be a little bit challenging to keep up with your power requirements, keeping plenty of charged batteries, for example. Especially on extended trips or trips out in the middle of nowhere, and that's why I like to have a power adapter for the car. Now, some cars actually do have household power connectors, power outlets right inside the vehicle themselves, built-in as part of the car. That's a great feature but for others, you'll need a different adapter, the power adapter is like this. This used to be what we would call a cigarette lighter adapter, I think that's getting to be less common, but you plug that in so you've got power and then we have a transformer here with two household outlets and two USB ports in this particular case and that means that, for example, among other things, I can plug in my charger…

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