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A spare battery for the camera.
If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away
as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! |
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A spare battery for the camera.
On 2012-10-14 19:41:21 -0700, Peter Jason said:
If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! No! You would be better off buying the spare battery and use a rotation protocol. One battery (A) in use, and one freshly charged (B) on standby. When "A" is almost, or fully discharged, replace with "B" and charge "A" to be placed on standby in your bag. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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A spare battery for the camera.
In article , Peter Jason
wrote: If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? it will degrade whether you use it or not. When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! big deal. the carrier would gladly give you a new and better phone for free (or some token amount like $9.99) that does a lot more than the old one ever did. that's how they entice you to sign another contract and lock you in. also, you don't say when it died, but phones from 1997 can't be used anymore, so even if you had a stack of batteries, you'd still need to replace it because it no longer works. similarly, by the time batteries for your camera are obsolete, the camera itself will be obsolete. you'll *want* a new camera. think back to what digicams were like in 1997. |
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A spare battery for the camera.
In article , tony cooper
wrote: When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! big deal. the carrier would gladly give you a new and better phone for free There are no free phones. yes there are. quite a few, in fact, including the iphone and android phones. here's a whole bunch: http://www.verizonwireless.com/free-phones.shtml You may not be charged for it when you pick it up, but you will pay for it over the course of your contract. obviously, but you're going to be paying the monthly fee anyway. the phone does not cost anything extra. not only that, but they don't discount your monthly fee if you refuse the phone, so you might as well take it. Only a sucker thinks the phone is "free". well let's see...you're paying say $50/mo for service and you sign a new contract, then they hand you a new phone for no extra cost. you continue to pay $50/mo, just like you were before, but you now have a new phone. since you think it's not free, where's the charge? yes, it's subsidized, but as i said, you are going to be paying the monthly fee *anyway* and they don't discount anything if you refuse the phone, so you might as well take it. it's how the cellphone industry works. |
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A spare battery for the camera.
In article , Peter Jason
says... If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! I wouldn't bother trying to save a camera for posterity, since newer and better camera models keep coming out all the time. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site |
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A spare battery for the camera.
On 15/10/2012 6:47 p.m., nospam wrote:
it's how the cellphone industry works. Thanks for that description. It makes printer/ink and cigarette companies seem honest. |
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A spare battery for the camera.
On 15/10/2012 04:01, Savageduck wrote:
On 2012-10-14 19:41:21 -0700, Peter Jason said: If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! Usually you can get recently obsoleted batteries if you know where to look. The supplies don't just vanish immediately. Chances are that an antique phone like that won't work on current networks anyway. You probably could still find a used one on eBay if you really wanted to (though I don't recommend it). No! You would be better off buying the spare battery and use a rotation protocol. One battery (A) in use, and one freshly charged (B) on standby. When "A" is almost, or fully discharged, replace with "B" and charge "A" to be placed on standby in your bag. This is by far the most rational approach. Oh and be sure to carry the spare battery in a plastic case so it cannot encounter metallic objects and short circuit. They pack enough punch to catch fire if provoked. It is easy enough if you have a camera that takes 4xAA you can just buy some new batteries if the rechargables run out but for bespoke batteries you need a backup already charged just in case. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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A spare battery for the camera.
Le 15/10/2012 08:54, Me a écrit :
On 15/10/2012 6:47 p.m., nospam wrote: it's how the cellphone industry works. Thanks for that description. It makes printer/ink and cigarette companies seem honest. but not all cell phone companies do that. For example french "freee" company makes a ¤20 subscription with no phone http://mobile.free.fr/ but, by the way, you prbably have some relatives that can share a phone with you for free or buy seco,d hand phone. The OP problem is still important if somebody wants to keep hardware for historical purpose, museum... but then it's probably possible to adapt some new battery to the old form factor one jdd NB: for short circuit risk look at a shorted battery: http://dodin.org/piwigo/index.php?/tags/88-batteries (just found in my pocket once) |
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A spare battery for the camera.
nospam wrote:
In article , tony cooper wrote: When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! big deal. the carrier would gladly give you a new and better phone for free There are no free phones. yes there are. quite a few, in fact, including the iphone and android phones. here's a whole bunch: http://www.verizonwireless.com/free-phones.shtml You may not be charged for it when you pick it up, but you will pay for it over the course of your contract. obviously, but you're going to be paying the monthly fee anyway. the phone does not cost anything extra. not only that, but they don't discount your monthly fee if you refuse the phone, so you might as well take it. Only a sucker thinks the phone is "free". well let's see...you're paying say $50/mo for service and you sign a new contract, then they hand you a new phone for no extra cost. you continue to pay $50/mo, just like you were before, but you now have a new phone. since you think it's not free, where's the charge? yes, it's subsidized, but as i said, you are going to be paying the monthly fee *anyway* and they don't discount anything if you refuse the phone, so you might as well take it. it's how the cellphone industry works. Not necessarily in the UK. I got a "free" android 2 years ago on a 2 year contract. The two years terminated a few months ago, which meant I was eligible to pick up a new "free" phone while continuing the same contract. If I had done nothing but refuse the new phone offer I would have stayed on the same contract with the old phone. Some digging behind the marketing bull**** enabled to me to keep the old phone and drop down to a new much cheaper contract which gives me the same (actually slightly more) "free" monthly usages. But I had to make a bit of a fuss to discover that this was a possibility. And then I had to make more fuss to return an extra which they had (so I thought) assured me was absolutely free forever and turned out to be only free for the first few months. -- Chris Malcolm |
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A spare battery for the camera.
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:41:21 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:
If I buy a spare camera battery and store it away as a hedge against obsolescence, would this be a good solution? When the battery of my 1997 mobile phone died, there were no replacement batteries available, and so I had to buy a new phone! First accessory I got for my new Panasonic G3 was a pair of batteries. Not so much so that I'll 'always' have them but to use when I'm out and exhaust the one in the camera. |
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