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I generally get well more than eight hours overnight while away on expeditions, last year I followed the Scottish Six Day Trail for two days and took a lot of exposures with the D3 using four batteries. In car charging would have been a boon. I don't trust inverters, especially cheap ones when it comes to expensive camera and computer gear. So for me at least, the ability to charge a camera battery from the car would be welcome. Meanwhile one of my D3 batteries had died.
I had planned to repeat the trip and get four days of the trial this year but covid19 got in the way, maybe next year?
I suppose that is fair enough but that wouldn't be charging in your car would it?
As soon as there is more than one battery involved I would prefer to use a separate charger. Charging a battery in the camera overnight would probably work with the Z6 or Z7 if the external charger has only one slot, one charging in the camera and one in the charger to start the day with two fully charged. The D3, and later, SLRs have two slot chargers allowing one to start the day with two fully charged batteries and no need to use the camera.
It is possible these days to buy a third party charger for Nikon batteries (I have an MH26 equivalent) and some come with adaptor plates to allow both EN-EL18 and EN-EL4 batteries to be charged. I haven't tried one with an inverter but I have used an inverter with computers without problems.
I have several ExPro EN-EL4a batteries and I can't fault them and they ate 1/3 the price of a Nikon original.
Last edited on Sat May 30th, 2020 07:18 by GeoffR