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Starting out fully charged

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Starting out fully charged

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Now before you head into the field and this is one that i cannot just say enough. >> Its a head scratcher this one. >> Make sure every battery, is fully charged. Now you think of course. But I can't tell you how many times I go out into the field and somebody else used the gear in my office, we share gear and I get on location I pop in one battery. Dead. Grab another one. Dead. >> Yeah. And I'm like, I told you, this happens to everybody. So don't feel bad if it happens to you, and when it happens to you. But in my case, I was at the situation where the night before shoot, I'm making sure that I have the right lenses and that I have the audio recorder and that I have the memory cards. And the one thing I always think to do is oh did I charge my batteries, that I plug in you know, plug in my power charger, but oftentimes, that's the one step that I think about, but I forget >> And to make things easier, one of the things I've done is I buy multiple battery chargers, so that I don't…

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