M6ii power through USB

ken_in_nh wrote:

Miguel-C wrote:

If you focus less on sarcasm and look at practical uses of powering something on the go, a lot of that confusion will go away

I mean, even if you're someone who doesn't need it, surely you can think of travel photographers and videographers who very clearly have use for it?

I guess I don't have enough imagination. How anything can be easier than carrying and swapping in spare batteries is hard for me to imagine.

If you shoot star trails you would understand. To get the longest and arguably best trails, you shoot for the longest time possible. A camera battery will not last all night unless you are in Iceland or Noway or somewhere else way north or way south in the summer. 🙂 So, essentially you shoot from the end of blue hour in the evening until the beginning of blue hour in the morning which requires more power than just one battery. Changing batteries requires:

1. Powering down to change the battery which at best leaves a small gap of at least one shot even if you are fast enough to power down, switch batteries, power up and put the camera back in the proper settings in 60 seconds. Also, you have to power down during a shot which ruins another shot unless you have perfect timing to power down just as the exposure ends and before a new one starts which is a fraction of a second.

2. The potential of moving the camera alignment every time you touch it which is at around 8 times to power down, remove the battery, replace the battery, power up and reset the interval timer.

3. Getting up in the middle of the night to change batteries.

Consider that no proper videographer would use this camera too shoot such long continuous shots that they can't stop and change a battery.

Yea, I get it. You made an overly complicated solution work. Celebrate that tour-de-force. And move on. Maybe make a complex servo activated multi-axis accelerometer driven anti-shake platform. Maybe use an arduino to run it - practice C programming to boot.

After all, gyro stabilized or inertia steady cam platforms are analog and so old school, aren't they?