A few weeks ago, I picked up a third-party NP-FZ100 battery from Neewer. This isn’t really about that battery specifically – it’s perfectly decent, it fits my camera, holds a respectable charge, and costs a lot less than Sony’s own official version ($22.49 / £26.99 at Amazon). But what really caught my attention was a small feature that has now completely changed how I think about camera batteries: a USB-C port built directly into the battery.
Third-party batteries have been steadily including this more and more over the last few years, and it now seems blindingly obvious, but this is one of the most substantial upgrades to camera batteries for a very long time, and I can’t stop wondering why major manufacturers aren’t going for this.
