Q Tips
Posted 07/06/2012 - 00:08
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johnriley wrote:
I was using the Q almost all day today, rotating the batteries as they needed charging.
Does the Q have a DC power input, to avoid cycling sets of batteries?I was using the Q almost all day today, rotating the batteries as they needed charging.
Being a tightfisted Welsh skinflint, I am resistant to paying out oodles of my pension on over-priced proprietary powerpacks. I have often wondered if one could run a camera on lead-acid accumulators. For instance, a motorbike 6 volt acc should be ok on a camera that runs 4 x AA cells. It's mainly a matter of finding which of a multitude of coaxial connectors will suit a particular camera. Assuming that one has some soldering skills!
Martin
A few of my photographs in flickr.
Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.
Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.
Posted 07/06/2012 - 00:11
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An intiuging thought Martin, but it sounds simpler to buy a second battery! Time is also money!
Best regards, John
Posted 08/06/2012 - 11:34
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And the bike battery would be about 16 times the size of the camera!
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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I had a load of copying to do for a presentation, so I used the Q set to 3MP. The pictures would therefore be just about right for a Pectures2Exe slide show.
It did the job just fine. Now and again something would defeat the AF system, so the easy answer was to pop a paperclip on top of the subject and then it focused straight away. Brush away the paperclip to remove it before pressing the shutter.