First draft of external ML battery power -

Max Iso wrote:

Electric Shock wrote:

This is yet another example of just how backwards the camera manufacturers are.

The G9 uses at most 1.5A. The USB port of the G9 is so pathetically underpowered that it can't even deliver more than 1A. The remainder must be supplied by the internal battery.

What a joke in an era of USB-C ports that can charge laptops, and yes, smartphones, at 80W or more!

Trying really hard to take a shot at my G9 eh? Good luck with that, it stomps holes in your phones. Good thing your phone can charge during use bc new models can't change batteries anymore Now that's a joke and one that isn't funny...

I've got nothing against the G9. It is a very competent camera next to almost anything Nikon makes (the money-grubber charges $59.99 for its pathetic EN-EL15 battery, which is a paltry 1900mAh). I know it's hard up, but how desperate can it get?

For that money, one could get a 26800 mAh external battery pack with 12 times the capacity. To even use an external battery with a Nikon DSLR, one needs a dummy battery, voltage converter, and other ridiculous junk. They must have missed the memo that we're in 2019.

It's yet one more example of how far smartphones have come and serves as a brutal reminder that, because of the economies of scale and great competition that smartphones enjoy but cameras lack, not all advancements that come to smartphones (e.g., USB-C power delivery, which can allow charging up to a maximum of 100 watts (20V at 5A) may ever come to "real" cameras.

So, all in all, I've very glad that you created this thread to shed light on this pressing problem. It's a real shame that honest, hard-working folk are being forced to struggle with rubber-bands, dummy batteries, voltage converters, and an ugly/messy maze of wires so intimidating and threatening that, if they were red, green, and blue, would have a bomb squad bursting through the door.