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Hi, this is JP Morgan today on slanted lens we're gonna talk about battery solutions for DSLRs and for Sony mirrorless cameras
Why are we talking about this because it's a constant frustration for me on set. I like using DSLRs
I like using the Sony mirrorless sunset as a cinema camera solution
But the battery solution has never been as effective as the cameras were when you're working on sets
So there's a couple of things I came up with first off the sony a7r 2 battery was just it impossible
Impossible that one didn't work for five minutes. It wasn't worth the time took to put it into the camera
It really wasn't the new battery from Sony is much better
This gives us a lot more time on camera, but it still ends up
I'm about to the point where I want to continue in my interview. It's going great
The battery's getting close and now I start thinking about do I have enough battery time?
Do I have enough and it just gets frustrating? I don't like that one either. These are good batteries
Don't get me wrong. If you're doing still photography. These will shoot all day long
Well may not quite all day long, but they'll shoot a long long time
But if you're doing cinema and you got a screen going and you're shooting video, these are just not a good solution
need something else
So I've turned to more of a cinema solution to run my DSLR cameras for a couple of reasons
these 98 watt batteries are perfect for traveling because you can carry them onto the airplane with you and they don't harass you and you
Got plenty of battery solution when you get to the location
So here's how I'm using these things and there's several different ways to attach them to the camera
to attach them to the light stands are the things you're working on to be able to power these cameras in any
situation that they're in
number one simply an AC power supply
That has a dummy battery you plug this in the back of your camera plug this into the wall
And you now have power all day long?
Which is a great solution if you're standing right next to power all day long. It is not a great time lapse solution
there's not a solution if you're on set and you want to be moving your camera all around but if you're gonna set up and
do an interview and talk to someone for several hours or for a couple hours or something a
power solution is not a bad way to go plug it in and use it if I put a camera over head and
I don't want to have to touch it and I use cameras overhead like right now a lot
Then an AC power supply is a great way to go
You can power your camera not have to worry about ever having to touch it and you can run it all day long now
I looked up online and there are some super cheap versions of this online like 60 bucks
beware, those are just not great long-term solutions get something that's going to last you a little while if you're not close to
A power supply then a great solution is a DTaP with a dummy battery that goes to your camera
They make these for Sony's they make these for canons
They make them for all the different cameras out there the nice thing about this
Is it now it hooks to this battery and you can take the camera anywhere you want?
So the problem is how do I hold this battery around and it's just it's a battery. It's too heavy
It's just hard to deal with there's a way to get this battery next to your camera and run it off from this DTaP cable
So this is a golden mount plate I've taken off from another light that I had
I had a couple of these laying around that's just really a holder for the battery
there's nothing electrical about it and I'm gonna put a quarter twenty female corner 20 on this plate and it's just got a
Adhesive on the back and I'm just gonna stick it right in this corner right here
I do not have enough faith in the mighty mount. So I'm gonna glue the heck out of this thing with
Superglue something to make sure that that is not going to go anywhere. I'm gonna let that dry now
So the goal here is to be able to hook this on to either a bogan clamp super clamp
What do we call these guys? So I'm just gonna simply take this as soon as this dries
I will have this on here now. I have a plate to be able to hold my battery and this will attach here and
That will clamp on to the boom. That's gonna hold my camera now
This becomes a feed to my camera so I can power my camera and here it is overhead. Let's take a look at it
It's just a simple
Cook that under plates I've now got my cable goes into my camera
I can turn this battery on that battery's gonna run that mark three overhead for a long long long long time
All right, take it away camera goes away
Yeah, that's not easy to do
If you don't want to do a DIY battery plate
Then the teletype makes this great dummy gold mount battery plate and they make it envy mount as well that has a stand mount
So hook that on to a stand and if you happen to have a D tap to dummy battery
you hook your D tap on the back of your
End of the camera and you're good to go so there's one by Intel attack
Nd Pro Tools also makes a battery plate with a dummy battery, but it's kind of quarter-twenty spot on the back of it
This is perfect because now that corner 20 can just simply go into this little stand little clamp that they have
and
That little clamp
Can hook it on to your stand now? You've got a dummy battery that goes right into your camera. You're good to go
Added bonus this nd Pro Tools gold mount quarter 20 plate
And it's kind of battery connected to it can also serve it's a dummy battery
Just simply unplug this out of your camera now. I've got a D tap on the side
Any cable that goes to any camera? I can hook up D tap on the side and this now becomes a dummy battery or I
Can hook it into two cameras and then two cameras off from the same battery added bonus
So let's talk about some cinema style solutions here
The number one and probably the cheapest if you own Sony l-series type batteries is this Sony l-series battery pack
This takes two sony l series batteries
Both of them have to be on then
This is a dummy battery that goes to it a7 r2 so it's a double rail system double rail system
All these cinema solutions are gonna run on a double rail system
Which means you hook this to the two rails and that's your power supplies
You can put it up. But if you want to get it out of the way, you put it down
You can hook it wherever you want
If you want to put it in the front you put on the front depends on where you want it
Most people put it towards the back, but that's a great solution
If you already have these sony l series batteries because it's a very inexpensive
Solution to be able to get power to your camera and these are gonna run a lot longer
These L series batteries come in a lot of different sizes
So a lot of different options is gonna make this run a long long time
Now if you have gold mount batteries like I do
then this is a great solution because this is a battery plate a gold mount plate and
This has a double rail system hooks onto the back of your camera right there
Tighten it down and you're ready to go
you can put this battery up out or
like I say you put it in front anywhere you want to put it but that now hooks my golden mount batteries go on to
The plate and this becomes a great solutions got the dummy battery that goes into the camera
They have these for the h7 r3 as well as the Mark threes and fours
I mean
There's just these kinds of cinema style
Solutions this I think is a really good solution
If you have a V mount battery or a gold mount battery
They come in both of those different plates so you can put on the back your camera, you know
It's swapping batteries out all the time, which is really my goal
That's why we're doing this now one of the problems about these batteries is that they're very slow to recharge
It takes several hours to get these things to recharge
That's why I'm excited about the fact that any probe came up with this super charger
This cuts the battery charging time
Will these 98 watt batteries down to like an hour and 15 minutes?
which is incredible because I think these can go as high as
Seven hours on some charger depend on the charger not all chargers are the same and get a very cheap charger and it'll take forever
to charge one of these batteries but where the super charger takes about an hour and 15 minutes do that 98 watt battery and
Also, this will make sure that your battery is not under charge. It'll make sure it's not overcharge
It will shut down automatically if the battery starts to overheat
The super charger is worth the money because it gets your batteries off the charging and back in a service a lot
Supercharger Andy pearl also makes a 16 point 8 volt 1 amp
wall charger
What I love about this is just the fact that I can throw this in my bag and I can charge my batteries and this
Is all I have this tiny little thing goes with thee the supercharger is fabulous
But it's big the big charger that puts 2 batteries on it is huge
This makes a very compact travel friendly way to charge your batteries when you're on location
I think that's a great solution but last of all a little bonus
And this is a little they call this an D
USB
Adapter the new nd Pro batteries already come with the USB not all of these gold mount batteries do a lot of my old batteries
do not plug this in you now have the ability to not only run your camera through the DTaP but also to
Charge your phone on that USB, which is a great option because there's so many apps that run my time-lapse that run different devices
I want to be able to charge my phone while I'm shooting with my camera great solution there
so there you have it some great solutions on how to run your camera both your DSLR or your mirrorless camera when you're out on
Location I believe if you're in a cinema style situation doing interviews doing doc style work
You need a longer battery type solution
You truly do something that's going to allow you to shoot a long time and not have to worry about battery
You don't want to have to be out on location trying to find power trying to deal with all that charger batteries
take a good-size battery that's going to hook to your cinema rails or
Onto the stand or the overhead camera and let it run all day long. That's a solution that really makes sense
So keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking
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