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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
Robert Coe wrote:
Too bad they : didn't make the plug even more unique on the camera, or make it talk to the : power-supply to recognize OEM power-supplies only. I'm sure that's next on : their bean-counters' "to do" lists. Cell phones already do exactly that. My son-in-law found me an adapter to connect the charger for my Blackberry, which has a digital-camera USB socket, to my LG phone, which has the tinier USB socket common to "dumb" cell phones these days - the object being to carry one fewer charger on trips. It works, but the LG complains that the charging cord "isn't authorized for this phone". My antique Razr cell phone stopped working with it's original charger so can now only be charged by USB from a computer, and only one cable works...gah! it's a conspiracy I tell ya! Sony laptop's battery died soon after purchase but it works fine on the power supply plug... the battery sits on a shelf. |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
N wrote:
The neighbour posted some iPhone 4 pics on Flickr and I couldn't believe how bad they were, like having stacked polarizers. Royal blue sky and stronger royal blue harbour water. Admittedly, the harbour water sometimes looks blue, it's more often a soft greenish blue. Could have been the retro polaroid filter if framed in a white border. |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:59:49 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:
Cell phones already do exactly that. My son-in-law found me an adapter to connect the charger for my Blackberry, which has a digital-camera USB socket, to my LG phone, which has the tinier USB socket common to "dumb" cell phones these days - the object being to carry one fewer charger on trips. It works, but the LG complains that the charging cord "isn't authorized for this phone". In-car GPS units already do this, but not quite so sophisticated as to be digitally keyed. A common mini-USB plug, but they alter one of the pins with a resistor or something so that other universal cords can't be used for charging or powering the device. Without the OEM adapter you can't charge your car's GPS unit. No doubt digital-keying will be next. Are you listening, you lousy ****ing bean-counter demons that are the only ones designing our cameras today? You're asleep at the switch! You should be fired INSTANTLY for all the obvious revenue you've lost for your respective camera company, by not digitally keying adapters and batteries to your cameras! Photographers don't design new cameras for photographer's purposes today, bean-counter accountants design today's cameras for bean-counters' purposes. There's been no real camera innovations for about the last 3 years. So why buy new ones? There's many many excellent cameras on the used market, some far better than anything offered today. As long as manufacturers are letting their lousy bean-counters design our cameras I see no need to upgrade. More often buying a newer camera today is a major downgrade. Aw darn, those bean-counters are causing a loss of sales. But it looked SO good on their "job security only" spreadsheets, didn't it. There's much more to a company's longevity than "value engineering". "Value engineering" could (and will) be the root cause of a company's demise. |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
Robert Coe wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:40:26 -0500, Henry Olson wrote: : There's been no real innovations in cameras for many years now. Ah, yes, I pegged you as the pest. No laptop that I've ever used would work at all without a battery installed; all the AC adapter does is keep tha battery charged while you use it. Actually your claim is untrue for every laptop I ever used. And laptop batteries that keep track of when to die do it by counting the number of times their charge falls below a threshold level, not the number of times the computer is turned on with a charger present. Constantly charging the battery without need and subjecting it to laptop working temperatures without need isn't beneficial to the battery life --- and some batteries keep track of incoming and outgoing electrons. -Wolfgang |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
N wrote:
I have a neighbour who constantly brags about how good Apple is and has to have every Apple product as soon as it's available. I earn my living using Windows products, but I don't brag about Microsoft. Not being an Apple or Microsoft user[1], I still understand why people brag about Apple and don't brag about Microsoft. :-) -Wolfgang [1] OK, I admit owning an XP computer without Internet for games only. |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message ... N wrote: I have a neighbour who constantly brags about how good Apple is and has to have every Apple product as soon as it's available. I earn my living using Windows products, but I don't brag about Microsoft. Not being an Apple or Microsoft user[1], I still understand why people brag about Apple and don't brag about Microsoft. :-) -Wolfgang [1] OK, I admit owning an XP computer without Internet for games only. You do? I don't. -- N |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
"David J Taylor" wrote in message ... The problem is that Canon batteries have been getting smarter. For example, I believe the 7D can be told to keep track of all its batteries, tell you when to charge them and which one to use next, etc. All Canon has to do to make that functionality unreproducible by a 3rd-party vendor is encrypt the information provided by the battery. So if the feature matters to you, you may be stuck. Bob Thanks, Bob. Makes for another factor to consider when folk are choosing between systems. Cheers, David You can buy third party batteries for the 7D that have all the functions of the Canon battery. They are often referred to as being "chipped". If I remember correctly mine cost just under $40 including shipping. Non-chipped batteries are less than half that, but can't be recharged in the Canon charger and can't communicate with camera. I have been amazed at the number of pics I get on a charge and I am using an IS lens. I have only charged the non-Canon battery once and according to my camera I have taken 277 pics and the battery still has 56% of a full charge. I will probably take 2-3 recharge cycles to get the battery up to full capacity. Ron |
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Battery question - canon 1D mkIV
N wrote:
"Savageduck" wrote in message news:2010081418380150878-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom... On 2010-08-14 17:42:33 -0700, "N" said: "Robert Coe" wrote in message ... Alas, I'm pretty sure that not a word of that last paragraph is true. No laptop that I've ever used would work at all without a battery installed; Lots do. Retailers display the laptops without batteries installed. Drop by an Apple store sometime, and check on the ease of removing a battery from a Macbook Pro. I wouldn't be game to go into an Apple store. I have a neighbour who constantly brags about how good Apple is and has to have every Apple product as soon as it's available. To be fair, he's a video editor and uses Final Cut Pro to earn a living, but I just tire of hearing about his latest and greatest iPhone, iPad, iThis and iThat. I earn my living using Windows products, but I don't brag about Microsoft. The neighbour posted some iPhone 4 pics on Flickr and I couldn't believe how bad they were, like having stacked polarizers. Royal blue sky and stronger royal blue harbour water. Admittedly, the harbour water sometimes looks blue, it's more often a soft greenish blue. The iPhone doesn't let you change exposure, white balance, saturation, etc.? -- Chris Malcolm Warning: none of the above is indisputable fact. |
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