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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Michael Meissner
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Re: external USB charger might be better

alcelc wrote:

The way of USB chaging (in-camera) of GX85 IMHO is not conveince at all. It would be out of operation on charging!

I bought an external Dual Channel USB charger and now I can charge batteries by USB extenral power bank in my camera bag while shooting with a spare battery. Theoricially I can bring less spare batteries with me now. No more late night charging after return to hotel room.

Though of course you do have to charge the external power bank overnight.  I've done that at times, but generally I find it better to have enough batteries to last the day.

If you use the charger in the bag, you run the risk of the cable coming out and with some cables, breaking, or something in your bag pressing the off button on the charger.

In theory, you could use the tether tools setup if you are shooting from a tripod for long periods of time:

And for the Olympus BLN-1 users, there is an Olympus version

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