You can charge Nitecore’s Sony camera battery with USB-C

The Nitecore UFZ100 digital camera battery is in this article to release photographers from Sony’s proprietary grasp — a created-in USB-C charging port lets you ability it up utilizing the very same hardware as many of your other gadgets (by way of Gizmodo). It has not been formally launched yet, but you can use the battery with the Sony A7 III, A7R III, A7R IV, A7S III, A9 (ILCE-9), A9 II, A6600, A7C, A1, Forex3, and A7 IV, conserving you from lugging all around a different charger if you want to carry along (and cost) an more battery on a shoot.

As Gizmodo details out, the battery has a a bit smaller capacity than its proprietary equal, with the Sony NP-FZ100 coming with a 2,280mAh capacity and the Nitecore UFZ100 featuring 2,250mAh. In phrases of charging instances, Nitecore’s battery appears to tumble a bit shorter as well. If you are charging Sony’s battery with the $99.99 BC-QZ1 charger, Sony states it need to demand absolutely in about 2.5 hrs, whilst the Nitecore UFZ100 usually takes 4 several hours to reach a comprehensive demand. It’s unclear if the 4-hour charging time beats the quantity of time it normally takes to demand Sony’s battery inside of the camera using a micro-USB cable and AC adapter, however.

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Moreover the existence of a USB-C connector, the battery alone arrives with a electricity indicator gentle that flashes crimson when it is charging and stays inexperienced when it’s fully charged. There’s also a crafted-in button on the battery, and urgent it will make the indicator mild exhibit distinct colors dependent on how a lot juice the battery at the moment has: eco-friendly for around 50 per cent, blue for much less than 50 p.c, and purple for less than 10 percent.

That said, we have no notion how trusted the battery actually is, enable on your own how a great deal it expenses or its launch date. The Verge achieved out to Nitecore with a request for comment but didn’t straight away listen to back. It does feel a bit like a tradeoff, though — Nitecore’s battery might not final as very long or demand as speedy, but the USB-C compatibility helps make it all the additional practical.