First-World Problems...Part Who The Hell Knows...

Where is the Green New Deal? I want a battery that lasts forever!

The camera in the photo has a small battery that lasts for barely 250 photos. And even fewer if I want to take 4k images. Yes, it is a difficult and painful life, but we must try to function in this brutal time.

I was taking some time lapse images of...stuff*...and 250 images just didn't cut it. at 30 frames/second that's barely eight seconds, and I WANT MORE!

So off to the internet, where I found an AC converter that fits perfectly in the battery compartment (it has a convenient hole in the cover for a cable) and will allow me to power the camera externally.

But here is the awful part; I had to wait an entire day for it to be shipped to me. In fact, more than 24 hours from the time I ordered it until the time it arrived.

I struggled, barely functioning, mostly curled up in a dark closet until the package arrived.

Joking aside, it is a wonder what we have available to us. That camera takes amazingly high quality photos with an almost infinite number of adjustments available at the touch of a finger. I can transfer the photos to my PC or send them over the internet to be printed. Oh, it takes pretty good video too!

Remember the clunky and crappy cameras of yesteryear? Sure, some of us invested a lot of money in equipment, and time learning how to use it, and were able to take glorious photos. But most of us muddled along taking mediocre photos and then had to wait to get them developed.

I am sure that there are purists who pine for the good old days, but most of us are perfectly happy with modern photography equipment that does most of the work for us and produces better photographs.

Although they still sit in the equivalent of photo albums, mostly unseen...

*Coming soon to a Food Thread^TM near you.

posted by CBD at 02:05 PM

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