TWiP 338 – Holiday Gifts for Photographers
Host: Frederick Van Johnson with Darlene Hildebrandt and Martin Bailey
This week on TWiP…
- Chicago Sun Times rehires some of the photographers they replaced with iPhones
- Nikon firmware update kills 3rd party batteries
- TWiP's Holiday Gift Giving Guide
- And an interview with photographer Steve Brokaw
Interview with Steve Brokaw
You can also follow Steve on Twitter or circle him on Google+
Martin's top 5 items:
- Drobo 5D
- Really Right Stuff BH55 Ball Head
- An ND400 filter
- Bergeon 5733 Air Blower
- Craft & Vision Gift Cards
Darlene's top 5 items:
- Give the gift of education: buy your loved ones a photography class, ebook or DVD – dPS ebooks
- Capture Camera clip Pro system (review of it on dPS)
- A funky lens coffee mug from Photojojo.com – Nikon or Canon
- Camera-sutra t-shirt from Trey's Stuck in Customs store
- Pixelsticks
- Darlene: Darlene's Nicaragua photography tour
- Martin: The One Tree in a Billion Project
- Frederick: DJI Phantom Vision 2
- Digital Photography School
- Problogger
- Darlene's online Photography courses (Code: twip10 for $10 off)
- Martin's letter to Google
- Send poop
- Snapndeals
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FWIW, I do buy 3rd party batteries for m43, P&S, etc. Never had a battery catch fire, but, recently have a battery with sides that “swelled”, getting stuck in the camera. Didn’t buy it that way — it went in the camera just fine. Start having problems after a few charges. I don’t use 3rd party in my DSLRs — batteries last long enough that I can afford to stick with camera manufacturer batteries.
I think your discussion on the 3rd party batteries
missed the whole point: Nikon released the firmware to fix the battery life.
From the fact that cameras could not recognize the 3rd party batteries
means
The Nikon batteries are ‘smart’ batteries with some sort of
a chip in them
The firmware is using ‘creative’ ways to utilize those ‘smart’
batteries. That mean that it is not a problem fix but a work a round. The fact
that cameras use a lot of energy (higher than the battery capacity) is still
there they just use less time. Again it is just my speculation as an microcontroller
Engineer.