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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

User ID wrote:

How is that actually any solution ?

How do you carry a spare when needed ?

TreborLow

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

I made snug fitting caps out of card stock and masking tape. Rubber band for insurance. Instead of a clever dot pattern, I use a letter code and go in alphabetical order.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

I have Pentax Kx's (two) and a K70. The Kx's use AA rechargeable which I carry in groups of four grouped with rubber bands. Those I keep on a small pouch in my camera bag. The Kx uses a Li109 of which I have four and those I carry in plastic boxes that snap closed, they also have a few sheets of a foam plastic material as padding. The AAs are charged when all in the same orientation, positive at same end, discharged are alternated. The Li109s charged are contacts down in its box, contacts up if discharged. I have a single charger with only an AC cord and a double charger with AC and DC (car) charger cord and nearly always have all batteries fully charged before going out to shoot.

Here's the link for the boxes at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075181YVB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

I shoot events with two or three DSLRs (two batteries each, in grips) and carry six spare batteries for them,. I usually wear a fishing vest that's got a bunch of small pockets, each of which is just the right size for one battery.

I also use a small mirrorless, though mostly for fun/street shooting (and maybe travel if/when we can ever do that again). It uses smaller batteries and I just got a couple small Op/Tech pouches that fit onto the camera strap. One holds a spare battery, the other has a couple extra memory cards in it.

I always use the battery covers because it's too easy to short them out when their contacts aren't safely covered. Once I had an AA battery short out on coins that were in the same pocket I dropped the battery into. Burned my leg! An AA battery is 1.5 volts. The lithiums in my cameras are 7.4 volts and more flammable!

shutterbob Loc: Tucson

Since most of the time one of my camera backpacks is with me I keep a spare in the battery charger

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

Good ones right, spent ones left

Dubher

Think Tank Photo DSLR Battery Holder 4

tdozier3 Loc: Northern Illinois

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

I have a little soft case that I got with my hearing aids that my spare battery fits perfectly in

Beenthere

Flickwet wrote:

How do you guys carry your spares? I shoot Nikon DSLRs and Olympus Mirrorless. I just throw them naked each one in a separate pocket. Sometimes each one in a small sandwich baggie if I'm carrying a few.

You can just throw them in a pocket of your cam bag naked. If you examine them carefully you will notice that the contacts, on the battery, are slightly recessed, so there's little, to no, chance for them coming in contact with each other and shorting out. I do this all the time and have never had a problem.

GrandmaG Loc: Flat Rock, MI

Longshadow wrote:

I have four spares, I purchased two dual battery holder pouches.
(Airlines require that the terminals on loose batteries be covered.)

Airlines do have strict rules for carrying extra batteries, so I covered the terminals with gaffers tape and put each in its own bubble wrap baggie. However, I’ve never had TSA check my batteries!

I like the Opt-Tech pouch idea that attaches to the strap. I think I’ll get one for each camera. I have at least 3 batteries for each camera...one in the camera, one in the pouch, and one in the camera case (all fully charged before a shoot).

Lots of great ideas!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Beenthere wrote:

You can just throw them in a pocket of your cam bag naked. If you examine them carefully you will notice that the contacts, on the battery, are slightly recessed, so there's little, to no, chance for them coming in contact with each other and shorting out. I do this all the time and have never had a problem.

Any chance you read a prior post about a key shorting out the battery connectors in a guy's pocket?
Maybe little or no chance, but not zero...

Unless one has nothing but the battery in the pocket.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

GrandmaG wrote:

Airlines do have strict rules for carrying extra batteries, so I covered the terminals with gaffers tape and put each in its own bubble wrap baggie. However, I’ve never had TSA check my batteries!

I like the Opt-Tech pouch idea that attaches to the strap. I think I’ll get one for each camera. I have at least 3 batteries for each camera...one in the camera, one in the pouch, and one in the camera case (all fully charged before a shoot).

Lots of great ideas!

Before I purchased the pouches, I used blue painter's tape to cover the terminals.

(I also put the tape over 9V batteries when I dispose of them so the contacts don't get shorted by anything in the trash.)

Beenthere

Longshadow wrote:

Any chance you read a prior post about a key shorting out the battery connectors in a guy's pocket?
Maybe little or no chance, but not zero...

Unless one has nothing but the battery in the pocket.

SIMPLE, DON'T PUT KEYS IN THE SAME PLACE THAT YOU STORE BATTERIES!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Beenthere wrote:

SIMPLE, DON'T PUT KEYS IN THE SAME PLACE THAT YOU STORE BATTERIES!

OR, use a battery pouch.
Whatever floats your boat.

gwcole

Perhaps a little off topic but never carry a 9 volt battery in your pocket. They get so hot you can burn yourself seriously. I found out by doing this and when I looked at the battery it had a warning on the label saying don't do that.