Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Fer goodness sakes, when will camera makers start taking advantage of > solar power. Batteries are so much trouble. Just think, a small > solar panel attached to a headband or special "photo cap" (brim turned > rearward by design) and plugged into the camera body. Perfect for > many shooting situations. A premium version of the cap could be made > with embedded solar panel "chips" which would capture the sun rays > from all directions. This is something that's way overdue.
:) It's obviously impossible to power a camera with a reasonable area of solar cells, but I suppose you could trickle-charge or supplement batteries with such a system.. (maybe crumpler will integrate solar cells into a camera backpack? Hmm, voltaic systems' backpack can charge AAs among other things.. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/09/voltaic_solar_b.php I wonder if one of these http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/09/20_solar_panel.php could serve as a K10D charger, or a AA charger for a k100? Aside, I really think that the world needs to move towards more standardized DC power connections. I expect that there is a fair amount of efficiency gain to be had in eliminating all the cheap power bricks in favour of home solar chargers and a home dc power grid. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Paul Schelter http://forksandhope.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This isn't right, it isn't even wrong." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
