Type - Battery charger / external
	Voltage Required - AC 110/220 V
	Input Connector(s) - 1
	Supported Battery Technology - Lithium ion
	Type - Camcorder battery - rechargeable
	Technology - Lithium ion
	Voltage Provided - 7.2 V
	Recharge Time - 3 hour(s)
	Cables Included - 3 x battery cable ¦ 1 x car connection adapter ¦ 1 x power cable ¦ 1 x power adapter
	Service & Support - 1 year warranty
	Service & Support Details - Limited warranty - 1 year

Second only to shutter lag (my personal number one pet peeve), battery life is probably the single biggest complaint most digicam owners would have about their camera. While strides have been made in the last year or two to reduce power consumption, there's just no avoiding the fact that digicams have hefty appetites for power. For casual shooters, this may not be a big issue, since it's easy enough to pack along a spare battery or a set of them for an extended outing. If you're a real "enthusiast" user (fanatic?) though, you can quickly end up carrying several sets of batteries with the attendant hassle of keeping them organized and paying attention to which sets are used, and which are still fresh. Worse, Murphy's law applies in spades to digicam battery life. The batteries are always destined to go dead just as the most compelling shot of the day happens by. - And it's no help having a spare set in your pocket if the critical moment is right now. You're still dead in the water for at least a few precious seconds.

To address the problem of short battery life, several manufacturers have developed external battery packs to provide extra juice for long shooting sessions. To date, most of these have consisted of a belt-mounted battery pack with a coiled cord that goes to the camera's external power jack. These work well enough (quite well, in fact), but the long power cord stretching to your belt can get in the way. - And if you want to use the camera on a tripod, you have to resort to some sort of a cobbled-together strap arrangement to hang the pack from the tripod.

Now though, Digipower has come up with a unique solution to the external-battery dilemma, in the process creating the most universal external pack to date. With the provided cables and adapters, it can power just about any consumer or prosumer-level camera out there, something no pack to date has managed to achieve. This new battery pack is overall one of the slickest external power solutions I've yet seen.