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Manfrotto is now making camera batteries


3 years 6 months ago #699431 by Ben Vanderbilt
Their prices don't look bad.  But how are these batteries?  I've always thought Manfrotto to be a decent company.  But batteries seems way off in left field, so clearly they didn't just put together a bunch of battery plants, someone in China (guessing) is making these for them.  Pass or consider?


www.manfrotto.com/us-en/products/batteri...s&utm_campaign=73669
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3 years 6 months ago #699463 by Peter P
Who knows on the batteries, but that charger is a copy of the Hahnel Procube.  Looks like they just relabeled it with their brand.  
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3 years 6 months ago #699504 by Piechura
They already make lights, so it's not a huge stretch, And to be fair, I can't think of a product I've bought where the battery wasn't made in China, even if the rest of the product wasn't. Charger too.
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3 years 6 months ago #699524 by Luca
LOL but this one is red
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3 years 6 months ago #699543 by Paris Gal
Well at least they didn't charge a higher asking price over the Hahnel Procube.  Surprised they didn't change the 'Procube' name to something different.  At least try to make it unique other than the red color.  :rofl:
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3 years 6 months ago #699588 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Ben

Making batteries????
or just rebadging someone else's product to expand the Manfrotto product line?

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3 years 6 months ago #699589 by Nikon Shooter

Ozzie_Traveller wrote: Making batteries???? or just rebadging someone else's product to expand the Manfrotto product line?


That sounds more like it
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3 years 6 months ago #699609 by fmw
They aren't making batteries.  They are making tripods.  They are selling batteries.
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3 years 6 months ago #699679 by Jeff Scott
Wait, will that thing charge the batteries any quicker? 
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3 years 6 months ago #699680 by Nikon Shooter

Hey Jeff,

There is a principle in battery technology that is called inner
resistance and from that comes the consequent shelf life.

The lowest inner resistance electrochemical compound on the
commercial market was NiCad — now banned. It was the best
in the days to use in flashes but was quite dangerous and had 
very short shelf life — in the order of 2~3 months.

The highest inner resistance electrochemical compound on the
commercial market today is the Alkaline battery… it has a quite
long shelf life — expressed in years.

The lower inner resistance means faster charges and discharges
sometimes at 20C (a cell of a given voltage could be fast charge
at 20x that said voltage).

The higher inner resistance means it is dangerous to even think
to charge such batteries — will heat up and possibly catch fire.

On the market today, there is a number of different electroche-
mical compound that all behave rather safely and have a good
self life. The charging speed is directly linked to the inner resis-
tance… any attempt to rush it may have dire consequences.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 6 months ago #699794 by Roy Wilson
Clone done up red is all it is.  Surprised would have expected something new from Manfrotto.   
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3 years 6 months ago #699824 by Pat White

Peter P wrote: Who knows on the batteries, but that charger is a copy of the Hahnel Procube.  Looks like they just relabeled it with their brand.  


Best charger on the market!  IMHO at least.  
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3 years 6 months ago #700114 by Crammer
Eh, well the red looks cool.  So is this considered a fast charger? 
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3 years 6 months ago #700115 by Nikon Shooter
To create an optimised charger, one has to determine the
safest maximum charging current — which is limited by
the inner resistance of the electrochemical compound.

An optional cheaper charger, with lesser charging current,
may be offered but never a faster (and unsafe) one.
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3 years 6 months ago #700163 by maxbe
Hello Ben,
Manfrotto is one of the best camera battery-making company, but sometimes the problem arises.
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