Designing a Better External Battery Pack for your Camera

Are you one of those photographers that finds those external flash battery packs all but useful? It does not have to be that way; an easy alternative is possible. Who will be the first to create this product?

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[MRMLONGSTREET]

Love this Idea ....=]

[boilerjack]

Excellent Idea! Someone please come up with the product- we would all buy at least one.

[phaskellhall]

@DZMonk No one wants to trade the vertical grip for that bulky battery. If we could combine the battery element inside the grip then we would have an amazing product! Someone please do this!

[phaskellhall]

@77appyi man that is Soooo close! I just don't want some bulky battery pack on the bottom of my camera. If Nikon or someone could make that pack fit INSIDE a normal vertical grip without loosing the ergonomics or functionality of the grip, I would be sold!

[angelisone]

Buy the ATG AK1 Un-Tethered Systems and you can shoot & transfer images wirelessly to a pc.

Simply the best.

[shamsham1983]

agreed

[77appyi]

you have invented something that quantum has had for some time the Quantum TURBO Blade fits to the try-pod socket very fast but very expensive, yes good ider for cheap Chinese item to take say 8AA batterys in fast change tray for say $40

[DZMonk]

I thought that's what those Quantum batteries, that mount to the bottom of the camera, do. One port powers the flash, the other port can power the camera.

[MudBarf]

Do the external battery packs for Nikon's provide low (circa 9vdc) voltage into that front socket? I thought those external battery packs supplied 300+ volts (bypassing the flash's own voltage regulators reduces heat issues as well as speeding up recycle times). I'm pretty sure most external battery packs work that way (Quantum, Canon, Minolta/Sony etc) - so you may or may not have to factor in some electronics/voltage regulators.

[175myles]

Never mind, there's no battery pack for the SB600 so no cords to hack up...