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To make sure you don’t end up with a flat battery in the middle of a shoot, we recommend picking up a spare battery.
SmallRig 3824 NP-FZ100 Camera Battery and Charger Kit
Hähnel HL-PLG10HP Ultra - Panasonic DMW-BLG10E
Of course, you would like to use the camera battery in your camera for as long as possible. It is therefore important to purchase a suitable battery for your DSLR or video camera. Brands such as Canon, Nikon and Panasonic offer suitable models. They are often already included with a camera, but after a while this battery runs out more and more quickly. It is also useful to have an external battery available quickly during long trips or when making many recordings. In this area, the universal batteries from specialists such as Jupio and Hahnel offer little energy loss, which makes them last longer.
If you are on the road a lot and would like to have enough capacity to make enough recordings, it is useful to have a spare battery at hand. This not only ensures that you switch quickly between recordings, but also reduces stress during long recording days.
It is not advisable to just buy a cheap battery. The price may be great, but experience shows that the battery drains or breaks quickly. It is often best to purchase a battery of the same brand as the camera. Of course, there are also plenty of brands that produce high-quality batteries at an attractive price.