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 do the same thing, but I also have some of those little plastic protectors that come with most batteries. It seems unlikely that two naked batteries in a pocket will have their contacts touch and set your pants on fire.
jerryc41 wrote:
I do the same thing, but I also have some of those little plastic protectors that come with most batteries. It seems unlikely that two naked batteries in a pocket will have their contacts touch and set your pants on fire.
Me too re the plastic protector cover things, those are why I posted, never again, couldn't get the damn thing off my Nikon battery to do a field swap, lost a picture opportunity, of course it was my fault for venturing afield with a low battery in the body, I just figured I'd see how many shots I could get out of it.
Op/Tech has a couple of options. They are cheap, well designed and made in the USA. It fits right on my camera strap and will hold a spare battery AND spare memory card. I really don’t even know it’s there.
I use the small one as it has a lot of stretch.
I have four spares, I purchased two dual battery holder pouches.
(Airlines require that the terminals on loose batteries be covered.)
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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 leave the caps on and carry them in my pocket.
Longshadow wrote:
I have four spares, I purchased two dual battery holder pouches.
(Airlines require that the terminals on loose batteries be covered.)
I use those dual pouches and when I swap batteries freshly charged have terminals down while depleted have terminals up so I know which is which.
SuperflyTNT wrote:
I use those dual pouches and when I swap batteries freshly charged have terminals down while depleted have terminals up so I know which is which.
Ditto.
I also use Stor-a-Cell holders for the AA/AAA batteries, top-up=fresh, top-down=spent.
Caps and a rubber band. Alignment of the band identifies fresh / used.
No special containers for me, but I know which battery to grab next to replace the depleted one. Always use the next one in the number sequence.
In the photo below, #2 is now in the camera and all batteries in the photo are fully charged. The sequence can start anywhere ... for this set, at this moment, it would be 2-3-4-5-1 (#2 is in use).
Say Cheese wrote:
I use this battery, SD and CF holder. Everything i... (
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Oooh! Nice! That's going onto my Christmas list.
Say Cheese wrote:
I use this battery, SD and CF holder. Everything in one case. Keep it in your pocket, or your camera case.
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Neat! - I didn't find that years ago when I purchased my battery pouches. I just have a hard Ruggard card case that holds 8 memory cards...
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