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EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Started Aug 28, 2020 | Polls thread
TimP111 Regular Member • Posts: 168
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Rons DP Account wrote:

Hi

The charging capabilities of Canon batteries are years out of date. A fact made worse by Canon mirrorless cameras being particularly heavy users of power.

Phones with large batteries charge in about an hour with USB C high speed charging. Not available for charging Canon batteries. Why not? Canon chargers are still very old micro USB.

You can plug in a USB C power pack to your Canon camera and as long as it is switched off (i.e. not being a camera) it will charge! Who at Canon thought that was a good plan? Surely a power pack should allow us to use the camera for hours? The fastest I have charged a battery is still over 5 hours; unacceptable. It's particularly unacceptable as on a cool UK day with settings set to low power (except I do always use the viewfinder) I get as few as 170 shots from a genuine Canon R5 battery.

Thanks for reading.

Ron

Yes you can run the camera from powerbank as long as its a PD powerbank and enough watts.. Dont remember offhand what you need but watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BJeFKtkSc

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