Ninja 2 battery life? Tips?

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mcbob

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Going to be renting a Ninja 2 for an upcoming job; it includes two 770-size batteries. What sort of battery life can I expect for the day? Should I plan to rent more batteries? Shoot schedule is ~10 hours. I'll be renting it several days before to familiarize, but wouldn't mind figuring simple bits like this all out well beforehand.

Likely shooting 30p or 60i. Any caveats using this unit with the AF?

OK, not strictly AF100 subject, but there's no "recorders" section I know of and I'll be using this with my AF...
 
All this research, and never saw that the af100 won't trigger Ninja2 recording via HDMI. Guess I'm waiting for a blade instead and hoping Adorama accepts this back.
 
OK... some AF100 testing updates...

The Ninja 2 will record ProRes 422 for approximately 4.5 hours on a fully charged ~4000mAh battery.

The monitor isn't as good as the AF100 LCD. That's a shame.

The AF100 doesn't put out any sort of timecode signal via HDMI. All is not lost; according to Atomos:
"Yes, the Connect does pass through timecode and start/stop flags, giving you timecode, and camera triggering with your Ninja 2."

...so with another ~$295, that's about $1000 overall, or still a heck of a lot cheaper than the NanoFlash, allows loooooong record times with a 480GB drive, and adds a second OK monitor I can use with several other cameras that will more significantly benefit from it - already planning to break the old HV30 out of retirement on an upcoming surgical procedure.

Maybe I didn't screw up so much after all.
 
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