Atomos announced that new Sony A7/r/s compatible power station you can preorder at BHphoto (Click here). It will ship in November for $295. Those are the great features of the power station:
Here is the full description:
The Atomos Power Station is a dual battery system for powering your camera and additional devices in the field. It mounts underneath your camera using a 1/4″-20 screw with thumbwheel and features slots for two Sony L-series type batteries. Two DC outputs and an included splitter cable allows powering of up to three devices, such as an LED light, a monitor, and a recorder. Optional DC adapters are available to provide power to popular cameras. And because batteries are hot-swappable, you can replace batteries on-the-fly without losing power to your devices.
In addition to the two DC power outputs, the Power Station also features a flexible dual USB power source which can power can power two USB devices, or one high-powered 2A device, such as an iPad. Two 2600 mAh batteries come included, which can charge an iPhone 5 from 0 to 100% three times. To monitor the power remaining on your attached batteries, there are independent left and right LED displays on the front of the Power Station, providing a quick 5-step guide from 100% to 10% battery life.
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- Dual battery system
- Compatible with Sony L-series batteries; optional adapters available for Nikon EN-EL15 or Canon LP-6 batteries
- Batteries are hot-swappable
- 1/4″-20 Camera screw
- Dual DC power outputs provide 8.2 V, 5A power on DC input power, and 6.2 to 8.4 VDC on battery power
- Splitter cable to powering two devices from single DC output
- Optional DC adapter cables available for popular cameras
- Dual 5V DC USB power outputs; charge a single high-powered 2A device or two 1A device
- Independent 5-step battery level meters
- Includes two 2600 mAh batteries
- Works with Atomos monitor/recorders
Get it at BHphoto (Click here) or [shoplink 29857 ebay]MotionMedia (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Video is a strange world.
I don’t see the ergonomics of it at all. It must be for a video setup because as a camera setup it is ridiculous… yet from a video standpoint it would make much more sense to have a more brick like battery that could connect via a cable to the camera so you could setup your rig anyway you wanted… Instead this thing is going to be protruding out the side of your video rig for no reason beyond a poor design.
Well said, from a position of ignorance.
From the perspective of simple logic… You must be the designers mom to be sticking up for this stupid design.
99% of the time with video you will never go handheld. Even if you did
go handheld you’d have the camera attached to some sort of rigging so
you’ll never really hold the camera directly. As for the brick protruding off the side this actually makes sense because the lens isn’t at the center of the camera body anyways. If the tripod mount hole on the bottom of this is exactly centered then with this your camera will be centered by the lens so in the end it should balance out your video rig better than the camera by itself.
All your points are correct, but this would still seem an odd design. You lack the flexibility to move the camera lower on your rig for no reason beyond the battery connecting directly below the camera. You also lose the ability to set your video rig up and just swap out batteries easily because now your cameras only good connection point is the tripod mount that is now having a battery crammed in between the rig and the camera. A batter connected to the rig itself and then wired to the camera would have made it much easier to swap out without having to disconnect the camera and batter both from the rig when all you wanted to do was change the battery.
I agree with a wired connection being the better option. The battery adding bulk to the bottom of the A7s won’t affect most rigs though, the a7s are pretty small to begin with. Even with the large battery at the bottom it shouldn’t be too different from a C100/300/500 or a black magic on a rig.
It does use a wired connection, as the unit ships with a DC battery “blank” for the A7S attached to a short cable. It just is mounted on the bottom of the camera for the photo. This should work fine on any rig.
99% of the time? Personally I use the tripod 5% of the time.
Aside from the physical connection of the 1/4-20, this brick appears to have no connection with the camera. So you can just as well use it as a counterbalance on a shoulder rig. It doesn’t have to go under the camera–that’s Atomos’s stupid marketing. They just wanted to show it as compact as possible, not expecting SAR to call it “a vertical grip,” which is of course totally wrong.
Can you power an A7/r/s with micro USB power? It seems that the camera will charge in that mode but will not shoot.
You can’t shoot and charge at the same time with USB. There’s an optional DC converter for this power station that lets you power the camera directly from it.
So are you saying you can shoot and charge at the same time with this DC converter? Where does the DC cable feed into?
I’m assuming it’s a battery adapter similar to the ACPW20, but instead of plugging into the wall, you plug into the power station.
nice try , but it is too big I just can not imagine how to hold all with hand
This isn’t a vertical grip.
It is not. SAR was misled by Atomos’ pictures to call it a vertical grip.
Calling this a vertical grip is like calling my belly fat “love handles”.
That thing is hideous… unless you were shooting video with a full rig, putting that thing on an A7, A7r or A7s would be a crime.
This is not a vertical grip… just a power bank for the camera, its greatest utility will be, for example, shooting time-lapse… extremely handy…for that.
this is likely the main purpose for it. aesthetics, ergonomics , ect, do not matter..only uninterrupted power supply mounted on a tripod.
If it supplies lightning to the A7 then I’m all for it. I hear it’s a real “shocker” to use.
hahahha….
Oh you’re serious!?
you can make your own power station from a BP-970 7800mAh battery, a Watson adaptor plate some, wires, dc barrel plugs and a dc coupler dummy battery for half this price.
less than half.
just an opinion to me: what a design…..
I guess it’s hard to change battery even it’s a hot-swappable design.. I will inevitably shake/interrupt the camera system when it is shooting to change battery. I’d rather separate the power source from the camera if I want to keep charging other devices when shooting (and design a power bank to A7 that can accept DC input). 🙂
anyway, thanks for the idea
Well, it is a wrong picture with a7 series, because it take W-series battery, while this thing is compatible with L-series. If you would like to use it as a power bank, you won’t be able to shot and charge at the same time.
This is another case of Admin getting over excited and putting up an over the top title without doing any proper research.
This is NOT a vertical grip. It doesn’t even mention the word vertical grip in the B&H link.
ADMIN STOP CONFUSING PEOPLE
The Admin called it a power station, not a vertical grip, people. Read the article.
That said, this looks like crap and why would anybody not be able to spare 10 seconds to change a battery? CONSTANT power is pointless. Even if you’re taking video, changing the battery would shake the camera and interrupt the video. Duh.
It was originally named vertical grip before he renamed it. Pay attention.
yet another overpriced product. sure it has all the crap leds and weird stupid design that makes it look expensive. but in reality it’s just a cheap plastic adapter with few electronics and the batteries themselves are nothing more then 2 very standard and cheap batteries. Seriously 2x2800mah is just absurd for that price.