After last week’s poll, when we asked whether you would want a camera with built-in memory, I thought there might be one thing even more useful: a camera with a built-in battery. Before you say “no,” hear me out. Lots of devices we use every day have built-in batteries. I still remember the outcry when Apple released the first iPhone, which was the first phone with a built-in battery. This has since become the norm for smartphones and enabled them to become much thinner than prior mobile phones ever used to be. Yet, in professional areas, built-in batteries are still frowned upon for obvious reasons: It means being unable to swap the battery when it runs dry and having to charge “on the spot” during a shoot, which is less than ideal. In-camera built-in battery—an addition, not a replacement, for the swappable one So here’s the idea: adding a built-in “safety” battery that would keep the camera running for, say, 5 or 10 minutes only while you are swapping the removable battery could be a huge win. It would essentially make cameras hot-swappable without bulky third-party accessories as we know them, particularly for larger cinema cameras that use V-mount or Gold-Mount. If a mirrorless camera manufacturer built such a tiny battery into their cameras, it would add little size or weight to the overall body of a camera, but it would enable shooters to run continuously for hours on batteries, even when they don’t have access to mains power. Outdoor...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 3 September, 2024