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From: "John Celio"
Subject: Buying the best batteries
Anyone available to answer an alliteratively quaint and quick question?
Well, I was wondering what's the best battery to buy for frequent-flash
photography. The bullshit batteries I bought for last weekend's white
wedding were obviously obsolete for that oddysey of outbusts.
Alkalines are available all around, yet vary in their veracity and voltage
volume. Lithiums last a lot longer, but buying them by the bag begets
broke-ness. Rechargeables require regular monotonous mainenance and more
money at the moment of purchase, but procurement provides a pre-existing
power population in your pocket that pooh-poohs spurious substitution by
shoddy successors.
Recycle rates, really, are the reason I ask about all this. My Pentax
AF540FGZ needs a new and nubile change in the charge-chamber. Previous
performance pooped out posthaste, posing a problem.
Suggestions?
External battery packs used to be the way we improved performance. A box
with a bunch of D cells has a lot more oomph than a set of penlight
batteries.
I'm a fan of old Metz 60 series flash units. They aren't fancy, and they
don't support modern TTL flash control, but they are accurate, fast and have
lots of power.
I know the CT-2 supports DryFit batteries, I'm not sure if the CT-1 does.
They are available on eBay fairly reasonably.
From my experience, the dryfit batteries will, if given reasonable care,
last around 20 years.
William Robb
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