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On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
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On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(