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Extending your camera's battery life

Extending your camera's battery life

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Extending your camera's battery life

- Hi there, I'm Robbie Carmen. - And I'm Rich Harrington. - And welcome back to another installment of Video Gear Weekly, and Rich, we were talking before we started rolling here today. I think you have a power fetish, not like you want to dominate people, be the leader of the world or anything, just battery power. - Yeah, well, it turns out that cameras don't work really well without power. - There's no perpetual, whatever they call that, you know, infusion reactors powering cameras yet. - Yeah, and I've got solar power, which is great, but it takes a long time to recharge, and so I'm constantly out shooting in remote locations where it's necessary to have battery power, and the little batteries, I've recently gotten the Sony, thanks to you. And Rob, those batteries don't last for squat. - Oh no, a lot of these batteries, especially on these smaller, mirrorless cameras, they're not going to last very long, and we've talked a lot about various power options in the past, but this week,…

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