R5/R6 - Battery / Coupler / Charging in the field - lessons & questions
What interests me, is the following:
1 - Convenience... I find velcroing an external battery to my tripod a wonderful convenience with no downside
2 - Saving real money with no downside
3 - Turning my camera up to "11".. no power saving modes, less waking up, better performance that is really needed when a bird bursts from a treeline and the camera has to wake up
4 - Discovering the quirks and oddities from the Canon engineers as they clearly put features in the camera that are either not well explained in the manual or just plain incomplete. Given the USB-C, and dummy battery options they built into this thing, I speculate that Canon is working on an external battery product... just a guess. I mean really, you can run the camera via the USB-C port... that is big and Canon did not have to turn that on.. they could have just left it as a charging option... especially since Canon does not make an external battery or even an AC option to run the camera via this port... but yet you can......
R5/R6 - Battery / Coupler / Charging in the field - lessons & questions
What interests me, is the following:
1 - Convenience... I find velcroing an external battery to my tripod a wonderful convenience with no downside
2 - Saving real money with no downside
3 - Turning my camera up to "11".. no power saving modes, less waking up, better performance that is really needed when a bird bursts from a treeline and the camera has to wake up
4 - Discovering the quirks and oddities from the Canon engineers as they clearly put features in the camera that are either not well explained in the manual or just plain incomplete. Given the USB-C, and dummy battery options they built into this thing, I speculate that Canon is working on an external battery product... just a guess. I mean really, you can run the camera via the USB-C port... that is big and Canon did not have to turn that on.. they could have just left it as a charging option... especially since Canon does not make an external battery or even an AC option to run the camera via this port... but you can......
R5/R6 - Battery / Coupler / Charging in the field - lessons & questions
What interests me, is the following:
1 - Convenience... I find velcroing an external battery to my tripod a wonderful convenience with no downside
2 - Saving real money with no downside
3 - Turning my camera up to "11".. no power saving modes, less waking up, better performance
4 - Discovering the quirks and oddities from the Canon engineers as they clearly put features in the camera that are either not well explained in the manual or just plain incomplete. Given the USB-C, and dummy battery options they built into this thing, I speculate that Canon is working on an external battery product... just a guess. I mean really, you can run the camera via the USB-C port... that is big and Canon did not have to turn that on.. they could have just left it as a charging option... especially since Canon does not make an external battery or even an AC option to run the camera via this port... but you can......
R5/R6 - Battery / Coupler / Charging in the field - lessons & questions
What interests me, is the following:
1 - Convenience... I find velcroing an external battery to my tripod a wonderful convenience with no downside
2 - Saving real money with no downside
3 - Turning my camera up to "11".. no power saving modes, less waking up, better performance
4 - Discovering the quirks and oddities from the Canon engineers as they clearly put features in the camera that are either not well explained in the manual or just plain incomplete. Given the USB-C, and dummy battery options they built into this thing, I speculate that Canon is working on an external battery product... just a guess. I mean really, you can run the camera via the USB-C port... that is big and Canon did not have to turn that on.. they could have just left it as a charging option... especially since Canon does not make an external battery or even an AC option to run the camera via this port... but you can.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
Nov 23, 2020 at 10:42 AM
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