Re: Digital Cameras For Beginners: When All You Want To Do Is Take ?Pictures

On Nov 16, 3:51 pm, Lou Holtman <lholremovet...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
frkry...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Nov 16, 1:28 pm, JG <j...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, yeah - the Canon A6xx and A5xx range takes AA batteries which the
mini's do not. If you are going on extended tour and need to use
disposables, they are the ticket.

I thought about that a lot before I bought the Canon. Our trip had
us in Europe for 6.5 weeks, and I worried that the proprietary battery
would run down too quickly. I worried about being in places where I'd
have trouble plugging in the charger, power adaptor, etc. I strongly
considered getting a AA powered camera, even though it would be less
compact.

Why did you think that would be different in Europe?

It turned out to be no problem.

Yes we have electricity for a while over here... ;-)

True, of course - but yours comes in a different flavor than ours, and
I was hoping not to have to spend another $30 for a converter.
Fortunately, the charger on the camera and the one for our cell
phone&PDA were able to handle the voltage difference. Thus, all we
needed was a simple adaptor to cover the difference in socket styles,
not a voltage converter.

Also, the variety of European socket styles is amazing! The adaptor I
bought was supposed to cover all countries "except Italy." IIRC, it
worked in some Italian sockets, but not in others. The difference
seemed to be a slight difference in pin spacing or diameter. And I
recall, while visiting friends in Switzerland, they searched around
their apartment for an adaptor that would work for us.

Here in America, there's much less confusion. Household electrical
goods will plug into almost any 120 V socket. With polarized plugs or
grounded plugs, one can get by with a tiny 25 cent adaptor, but even
that's rarely needed.

- Frank Krygowski
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