I've had pretty bad luck with ac adapters. Had a Glorich one that I bought first on
Amazon. That was not good. I returned that one. Also, I tried the usb ones where you attached
like a power brick. That had an extremely loud buzzing noise. Not worth it and the camera was
non-functional for the most part. I also have have these Kastar ones which are bad.
And these ones here tentatively good, especially the official one is fine.
Before we get to each individual adapter. I'm going to show you how they work with the cameras.
On the bottom of the camera there's a little gasket that you have to move out of the way.
So you've got the hole there and it goes through into the battery compartment. You take one of the
dc couplers for your battery. So in this case I've got one LP-E17 which is thicker
than other ones, and three of the LP-E12 types. These are generic, I haven't seen the official one
so I don't know if it's any higher quality. But these ones do work.
How they work is pretty simple. They have a hole on one side and then they
have the battery contacts on the other and it basically replaces a battery in the camera.
So it's going from the official adapter with the dc coupler and it's powering the camera.
Touchscreen works... seems to work just fine, right? One of the ac adapters I have a problem
with are these Kastar ones. Power on the camera you can see that the touchscreen is not working...
It kind of works sometimes. There's something weird going on with this. Yeah, if you get a third
party adapter it's kind of a hit or miss type of thing. Because they're pretty cheap usually and
they can be junk. Disappointing I bought two of those, but I do use the dc couplers that came with
them. If we compare the Kastar to the official adapter you can see the official one has this
ferrite core on here. It actually has two of them. Really large ones. I'm no electrical engineer
so I don't know the specifics, but you can see this does not have any of those ferrite cores.
I did buy a bag of them. I tried out a bunch of them on this it didn't help. So I've got another
adapter where I put two of them on here. Let's just try it out real quick just in case.
You can see it is actually working better than the other ac adapter, but I've had this one start
acting weird as well. You can see it's.. now it's struggling a little bit. It's being just
not not perfect. I do think it might have slightly improved this one. I could still mess around with
other sizes and see if those help but these Kastar ones don't buy these they're not good.
Before I get to the other adapter I'm going to try out this multimeter with the batteries and
the chargers to see what voltage they output. I'm no electrical engineer I don't know the specifics
but it's interesting to see what the different voltages are. These cameras can take quite a
big range of voltages without issue. Here's a wasabi battery.. and we can see what we get.
So this one says 8.36 volts. Let's try this Kastar one. I haven't been using these.
They've been sitting. I'm probably going to get rid of them eventually. Some more issues with
theirs, sadly. So generally a good battery 8.3 volts are so fully charged. As you use
the battery it will go down, of course. Start off with these Kastar adapters. The first
Kastar adapter 7.52. Here is the Kastar one with ferrite cores on it.
Still very similar seven point 7.48. Official adapter 7.64.
Here is the latest adapter I picked up. I haven't
used it a lot but it's worked okay so far. HY1C DR-E12 adapter kit.
So this one actually says a lot more volts 8.24. It's a lot higher than the other ones.
It's kind of pushing it but it is lower than the fully charged batteries. Here's the HY1C adapter
attaches to the m50. Just quickly try it out. See if the touchscreen works. Appears to work okay.
It's not stuttering. For some reason the touch screen is the thing that really can show up with
these ac adapters. So far so good with this one. Again, I haven't used it for a long time
so your results may vary. And of course, the M5. This specific camera has a slower like animated
menu but it works just the same. You might wonder why I have so many ac adapters. I'm trying to set
up stations for things like live streaming or filming at the computer. Filming at a certain
area that I have a setup with the lights. So it's good to have a ac adapter there ready to go.
Here are the better ac adapters close up. Get an idea of what they look like.
The weird thing about the official adapter is how it connects here.
It doesn't go all the way in, but it works. Your best bet is to get the official adapter, but you
can find some relatively decent third-party ones if you really put forth the effort. But
to make it easy and simple I'd advise you to go with the official one if you can afford it.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed this video and a large big talk about
ac adapters dc couplers with the EF-M cameras.
I'm Scott of Photography Banzai.
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