Battery

    How to use your camera in extremely cold conditions so it does not freeze to death
    May 7, 2018 Chad Verzosa

    If there’s anyone who should teach you about shooting in some of the coldest, most inhospitable places on the planet, it should be filmmaker and…

    Review Nikon 20mm f/1.8 Nikkor Lens

    DIY Options for Charging Drone Batteries Off-Grid
    Apr 29, 2018 JP Danko

    If you have a drone, sooner or later you’re going to want to charge your drone battery off-grid. The problem is that drones use big…

    Review of the CORE SWX V-Mount batteries
    Apr 28, 2018 Lee Herbet

    In a previous article, I wrote about why I sometimes use V-mount batteries as they allow me to run multiple devices shooting 4K and sometimes…

    What are V-lock batteries and should you be using them?
    Apr 15, 2018 Lee Herbet

    As a video shooter, I have needs and one of the big ones is power. Shooting 4K video and RAW video requires a LOT of…

    $20 Eneloop Pro vs. $5 Ikea LADDA batteries: which recycle faster?
    Feb 20, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Many items from IKEA can be useful for photography. But what about their batteries? Martin Cheung has decided to perform a test and check which…

    Apple now lets you choose whether you want to slow down your phone
    Jan 18, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    After Apple admitted it has been slowing down old iPhones, many users were left furious. Now the company’s doing what it probably should have done…

    Build yourself a charging station to save time and get organised with your batteries
    Jan 15, 2018 John Aldred

    Charging batteries is a pain in the backside. I remember when I used to shoot events with four Nikon SB-900 speedlights with SD-9 packs attached…

    Apple: “we are sorry for slowing down your phone, we’ll replace your battery for $29”
    Dec 29, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    After infuriating the users all over the world by slowing down their iPhones, Apple is now trying to make up for their mistake. They have…

    Received a Christmas present powered by LiPo batteries? You’ll probably want to read this
    Dec 26, 2017 John Aldred

    It might’ve escaped your notice, but it’s Christmas. Yesterday was Christmas day, in fact, and lots of people received all kinds of shiny new photography…

    How to revive a dead rechargeable battery with a barbeque clamp
    Dec 1, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Sometimes it a rechargeable AA or AAA battery dies and you can’t recharge it. However, it’s not always actually dead, and Iddo Genuth from Lensvid…