Is this the first we've seen sleeves that actually say "Batteroo" on them?
It's the first I've seen on the sleeves themselves.
Who is using a camera which uses AA batteries on a wedding? Every halfway decent camera uses a Lithium Ion battery...
Real photographs know AA batteries give the shot much more depth. You wouldn't know.
The only time I've seen AA batteries work at a wedding is where the organizers put one or two of those disposable (film) cameras with a built-in flash on each of the tables at the reception. Guests take photos through the reception and hand them back to a nominated person before they leave.
(I still have a couple of hundred of flash boards harvested from these cameras stashed away.)
My flashgun works with AA's but a batteriser will never see the inside of it. It is used with Eneloop NiMH batteries exclusively.
Did the camera with AA cells for my sister's wedding recently. Just went and bought a 20 pack of Duracell AA cells, and used them for around 20 minutes in the camera, then turned it off, popped them out into the bag and put new ones in, so I could have 20 minutes of video on the camera in addition ( wanted a second view as well) to the main camera, and could move around with a small Canon to get closer up video. After signing changed them again, and did the reception shots and video as well same method. Only needed flash operation once the whole day, it was bright and sunny, and plenty of light even in the deepest shade under the lapa, and the wedding itself was done with a backdrop of the ocean.
Video camera battery was easy, had a few USB power banks around that were fully charged, and had tested before the camera would work properly with them attached and charging with camera operating. Did not need them though, 2 hours of onboard battery was more than enough.
Having Batterisers I would have had no warning of low battery ( I was changing out AA cells at half power indicated, not low, I wanted the confidence) till the camera stopped working during an image save, and this would have corrupted the flash card FAT table almost certainly. Camera FAT writes are power hungry, and there are critical points during writes that have the potential to lose all the data if power to the card or the processor dies.
Old batteries are not thrown out, I kept them separate, and am slowly using them up in the most common use of an AA cell, being remote controls ( where the 1A5 current peaks will cause issues with the Batteroo in some) and clocks. There they still last a few years before failure.
I found the perfect device for the batteriser...
A Fisher Price video camera which has a battery life of about 10 minutes on 6 AA batteries
That just gave me visions of the guy with the miracle watch ... with the two suitcase battery pack to go with it.
Wow, what a nice device. That's a batteroo level camera for sure !
Update: they also bought likes now, was 6 likes now 136 likes
If we go and dislike it more then likes, i bet they will buy another round
EDIT: now it has 135 likes???EDIT: Now 134 likes?, not every day you see a video going down in likes, are the original few liker's disliking the video?
Update: they also bought likes now, was 6 likes now 136 likes
No surprise I guess; they seem rather set in their ways.
Speaking of which, latest round of complaints set for deletion or the auto-responder:
I found the perfect device for the batteriser...
A Fisher Price video camera which has a battery life of about 10 minutes on 6 AA batteries
I remember seeing those in a catalog when I was a kid, it seemed SOOO cool. Hey I was like 10...
So has anyone found *anything* that the batteriser improves? It seems like an interesting idea in theory, and it *is* rather nicely constructed. I have one of those Kit Kat clocks with the wagging tail and eyeballs, it runs off a single AA and tends the stop wagging long before the battery is dead. It occurred to me that this may be one application where these things could help but there's so much BS surrounding it that I'm not sure I could ever bring myself to buy one.
So has anyone found *anything* that the batteriser improves?
Two. The thickness of Bob's wallet and the amount landfill.
Just a big F U from batteroo
Just a big F Y from batteroo
A-hahaha! That is brilliant! Almost "Keyboard not detected, press F2 to continue..."-esque!
Who is using a camera which uses AA batteries on a wedding? Every halfway decent camera uses a Lithium Ion battery...
A lot of us still love our Canon A series point and shoot cameras (A590, A720). There's no real replacement.
If you are going to use a point and shoot at something like a wedding, AA batteries are arguably better, since you can have an unlimited number of them available.
Enloops are the way to go on the Canon A series. My A520 runs far longer than it did on cheaper rechargables plus if I don;t use it for a few weeks I don't turn it on just to find the batteries need recharging. If I'm going somewhere to take photos, I have a set of 8, so I take all of them and swap as necessary. They all fit nicely in my little carry bag.
I have some old A-series Powershots for my hobby (high altitude ballooning), for 2 reasons: they accept CHDK firmware so I can run an intervalometer script, and because they use AAs so I can pop in Lithium Energizers which are specced for the cold temperatures the flight will encounter. Alkalines are rubbish when cold, and your typical Li-Ion battery in modern cameras isn't much better.
Did anyone decapped any of the chips?
Alexander.