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Other batteries to consider

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Other batteries to consider

Robbie Carman: So Rich, when we go on set or out on a location, we tend to bring a lot of gadgets with us besides just the camera bodies themselves, right? We have little portable lights, we have audio recorders, we have little gizmos like this that allow us to do panoramic photos. I mean, my bag is full of little gadgets, and they seemingly all take batteries. Rich Harrington: Yeah, it's very easy to run out of batteries. So to that end, I always want to make an assessment, both of what type of batteries something takes before I buy it and what I need to bring with. For example, most of the shock on external type microphones like this that you are going to use run off a 9-volt battery. So you are going to want to make sure you have a couple. I always keep one in the microphone, one in my pocket, one in the bag. That way if I run out, it's easy. With three batteries I could deal with the fact that it was a good chance I am going to pack this away and forget to turn it off before I…

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