I’ve 600 hundred USB-C chargers all over the place; in my automobile, subsequent to my mattress, in my toilet, within the storage, in my digicam bag. Are you aware what I by no means bear in mind to pack? The battery charger for my digicam. Sure, you’ll be able to cost the battery with the digicam itself for many of Sony’s Alpha line of cameras, however no self-respecting photographer has time for that — you’re too busy taking pictures! Nitecore to the rescue, with its ridiculously clever battery with a built-in USB-C socket. Use any USB-C energy brick or battery pack to cost your digicam batteries on the go.
The batteries themselves are normal 7.2 volt, 2,250 mAh lithium-ion batteries, roughly comparable with Sony’s personal NP-FZ100 batteries. In fact, these issues retail at $80 or so, and Nitecore’s other accessory battery packs sell for about half that. The corporate isn’t revealing the value tag and haven’t recommended what the premium shall be for its USB-C chargeable battery packs. As a photographer who’s each forgetful and sometimes fails to plan forward, I’d gladly pay the identical value as Sony costs for its InfoLithium battery packs, only for the comfort of charging them wherever I discover myself operating low on juice.
It’s a type of improvements the place you go “effectively… rattling, why aren’t all batteries like this!?” Battery producers, when you’re studying this, you have got your marching orders. Put some charging circuitry in your batteries and let me cost on the go.