{"id":2129,"date":"2020-03-06T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T10:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2020-04-02T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:27:48","slug":"finaly-something-useful-from-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/finaly-something-useful-from-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally – Something useful from Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UK based photo site \u00ab\u00a0NorthLight Images<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb has recently discovered a patent application from Canon<\/strong> (popular photocopier manufacturer<\/em>) that will make many people, like me, who use battery grips on their cameras, very interested\/jealous…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This shows a \u00ab\u00a0Universal\u00a0\u00bb battery grip that attaches to different camera bodies with a changeable adapter. Makes you wonder why no-one has ever come up with something like this before – although, Nikon<\/strong> tend to treat there battery grips as a cash cow and price them far too high. It is, after all, only a box with minimal electronics Inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, if this ever sees the light of day, Canon<\/strong> users will really be a step, a leap ahead of other camera users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battery grips are not only for holding batteries (with the exception of the MB-N10<\/strong> for the Z 6<\/strong> & 7<\/strong>) they also allow you to have extra controls, or rather, duplicate controls to allow a more comfortable grip on the camera when you use it in a vertical position, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enable the correct connection between these controls and the camera electronics, a series of contacts are available on the camera baseplate, which marry up to similar contacts on the battery grip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until now, each camera series has had these contacts in different positions on the baseplate, allowing Nikon<\/strong> (and Canon<\/strong>) to sell expensive battery grips for each new model. It seems perfectly logical to build a \u00ab\u00a0reasonable\u00a0\u00bb sized battery grip, and then equip it with changeable plates for different camera bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a little like the light bulbs that never burn out, will we ever actually see this produced?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK based photo site \u00ab\u00a0NorthLight Images\u00a0\u00bb has recently discovered a patent application from Canon (popular photocopier manufacturer) that will make many people, like me, who use battery grips on their cameras, very interested\/jealous… This shows a \u00ab\u00a0Universal\u00a0\u00bb battery grip that attaches to different camera bodies with a changeable adapter. Makes you wonder why no-one has … <\/p>\n

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