Battery grips for extended shooting

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tonpole

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Anyone know of a battery grip for the GH1? Checked ebay, nothing. I'd use regular batteries but the charging time is 160mins and the usage is 120 max, so I would have to have 3 batteries and 2 chargers to keep shooting. Even looked for a dual charger, nata.
 
tonpole said:
Anyone know of a battery grip for the GH1? Checked ebay, nothing. I'd use regular batteries but the charging time is 160mins and the usage is 120 max, so I would have to have 3 batteries and 2 chargers to keep shooting. Even looked for a dual charger, nata.
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If you keep the screen off whenever possible and shut the camera off between takes you can probably squeeze more time out of the battery to keep it charged (careful to refocus your shots if using focus by wire lenses.) With 3 batteries and 1 charger with 120/160 you can probably shoot a day without running dry, assuming you never used partially charged batteries....let me do the math here.

Ok: did the math, you can shoot for 12 hours with 3 batteries and one charger assuming you never use partially charged batteries. Math gets a little trickier after that point but you could keep shooting for hours after that with partially charged. Factoring in breaks, etc, I feel like you can get a full shooting day in easily.
 
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3 batteries have worked for me so far. switching off LCD and placing on short economy mode helps, though im not to sure about the economy mode. I am quite surprised as to how fast the OEM bats charge, my guesstimate is just a little over 2hrs
 
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