By oteph on July 13, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash (Part 51a)–
Bring back to life your “dead” NiCad battery
(Continuation of June 15, 2010 issue)
In our past two issues (May 11 and 25), we discussed the fundamental concept and the makings of a Nickel- Cadmium battery (NiCad). Those information are needed for the reader to understand [...]
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By oteph on June 16, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 50)–
(Author’s note: The Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) battery has been in use by photographers for a few decades now and yet there has not been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. To give readers some important information, this author will [...]
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By oteph on May 25, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 49)–
(Author’s note: The Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) battery has been in use by photographers for a few decades now and yet there has not been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. To give readers some important information, this author will [...]
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By oteph on May 12, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 48)
(Author’s note: It occurs that even though the NiCad battery has been in use by our photographers for a few decades now, there hasn’t been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. And it is a fact that NiCad [...]
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By oteph on April 27, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power management of Your Flash
(Part 47)
(This is a continuation of March 23, 2010 issue)
Bringing back to life old
and dying NiMH battery
Frequently Asked Questions
The first part of our topic (March 23 2010) has raised a lot of curiosity to our technically oriented readers. One such reader is a photographer from [...]
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By oteph on March 23, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 46)
Bring back to life your old and dying NiMH battery
As your batteries have undergone many repeated charge cycles – even as you follow the rule of pairing the same set of four, you will notice that their stored power is getting shorter. And you readily accept [...]
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By oteph on March 9, 2010
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 45)
The penlight battery has always been the source of reliable power by mobile photographers who rely upon their flash to take pictures at any time. Indeed, the time-proven NiCad and the newer NiMH rechargeable batteries had already become an important part of photographers’ life. And for [...]
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