Battery charge adapter for Europe?

[Daniel Schaefer]

I am traveling to France and Italy next week, and was wondering with the 120 to 220 voltage difference, if I'll need more than just a plug adaptor, maybe some sort of alternative charger

I'm taking a Nikon d7000 with the new el-15 batteries

Cheers!

Daniel

 

[Asher Kelman]

I am traveling to France and Italy next week, and was wondering with the 120 to 220 voltage difference, if I'll need more than just a plug adaptor, maybe some sort of alternative charger

I'm taking a Nikon d7000 with the new el-15 batteries

Cheers!

Daniel

I thought Bart had answered this!

With a new camera, likely it's automatically dual voltage. Read the fine print on the likely chines power brick. The hotel will have an adapter. You can buy an inexpensive adapter to convert the round plugs of Europe to the flat prongs of the US plug. Almost all hotels have 110 volts for the shaver/hairdirver outlet in the bathroom. So you don't likely need any converter.

Happy travels and enjoy the 3 Fs: folk, food and fotography!

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Daniel, wish you a safe and pleasant trip and return home.

You are leaving the civilized world and stepping back into darkness.

Where they have 50 hz ( cycles back home ). Not that it matters.
220v. How arcane! They have funny holes ( sockets back home ).

Beware of safety. The natives!! They are wild. Gypsies abound.

You will have to deal with arcane systems of weights and measures. They call it kgs, and mts.

The tribes speak many tongues. And the number of tribes is growing!!

You will meet with an onslaught of ' information ' that you never had at home. Don't pay attention to it. All lies!

In some villages you won't have msnbc, fox, cnn, abc etc. Can you believe that! No real tv!

Most important of all, you have to contend with a barter system for trade. You can trade your dollars ( the real money ) for pounds ( not the weight ), euros, kronas, drachmas and who knows what.

Be careful of their public transport sysytem. So many things at the same time, in different dialects
you will wish you never left home.

Health..do you have insurance? AIG? They do take pity on strangers and treat you for free.
But do visit your own doctor back home. These folks studied medicine in schools thousands of years old. So they might be outdated.

Safer to stay in Idaho!

Safe journey.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Health..do you have insurance? AIG? They do take pity on strangers and treat you for free.
But do visit your own doctor back home. These folks studied medicine in schools thousands of years old. So they might be outdated.

Actually, Fahim, my good friend,

Not really! Most of these medical schools are just a few hundred years old! Jewish Physicians trained in the courts of Bagdhad and Constantinople, brought Arab medicine to the rather ignorant medieval Italians to set up their first medical schools. 100 years or so later, of course, these foreigners were not up to standards and booted out! That was then and despite their zigzag past, even Italy has caught up, at least when there's electricity.... joke!

Today, public health is ~ ~ pretty-fairly good the world over on two levels. Immunization of children, clean water and then great health care for the rich. In between, it's catch as catch can! In a restaurant where they forget to put up the notice in their own language to wash hands after using the toilet, one can get a bad case of the runs, especially if one comes from a protected rather clean place like the USA.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Asher, and medicine caught on in what is called the US of A when exactly?

And where were the doctors, scientists, mathematicians originally from?

Von Braun ( spelling ), Einstein, Fermi, Oppenheimer to name a few.

Surely Van Gogh et all must have been from where? Mid West?

The DNA, where was that first worked on and work published.

First heart transplant..oh, that was in South Africa of all places.

So my good friend Asher, tell me what is native to where you come from and what is imported?

Let's not talk about Penicillin.

And Columbus ( or was it Vasco de Gama ) that mistakenly discovered what?

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Hi Fahim, on this one you made me laugh....
(If only everyone could "speak in Kg, m and Celsius degrees, sigh!)

But there something else:
You will not been asked Yankees or Mets?
Lakers or Bulls?
Patriots or Jets?

It will be....
Chelsea or Tottenham?
AS Roma or Juventus?
Ajax or PSV?
Galatasaray or Fenerbahçe?
(I expect an answer from Cem for the last ones)


Silly people....

 

[fahim mohammed]

Sandrine, now you are talking my language. Mostly. I have no clue about that funny thing called ' cricket '.
I thought that was an insect or a cartoon character!! Five days they play, and no result!!

Like some wars I guess!! Like a five day game of cricket played by people who have time on their hands.
And idle spectators who too have nothing better to do. Five days for a game!! That is sports for you!

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

BTW, what's yours Fahim...?


PS: There's rugby as well...but apart from the French and the British I assume it's not so well spread...


I don't understand cricket neither and for every attempt to have someone explain it to me, I had a vague answer such as "oh!....it's getting late I'm gonna miss Eastenders...."

 

[fahim mohammed]

When I was young..Leeds United.

Now..Man United and Real Madrid.

 

[fahim mohammed]

We were talking about the D700 and its batteries.

I use the D700..made where?

I use the Zeiss and Leica lenses..designed and made where?

My tripod is by Gitzo. Guess from where?

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

I have a clue for the Leica and Gitzo (Germany and Italy?)
but nope about the D700....


Or maybe everything is made now in China or Philippines...

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Daniel,

Well, you perhaps had no idea, when you joined OPF, just what you had gotten into!

Best of luck on your trip, and with your battery management challenge.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Yep
OffTopic,
OffTopic,
OffTopic,
OffTopic..
it's a bit like SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, EGGS, BACON AND SPAM, but friendlier...

 

[fahim mohammed]

Last post OT here..I promise..

D700..designed and made in Japan
Zeiss ZF lenses..designed in Germany/Japan..made in Japan
Leica..Germany and Portugal

And Sandrine..Sacre Bleu ( a Greek expression which roughly translates to Holy Cow back home) ...Gitzo..France!!

Battery charger for Nikon..China.
Cable for charger..China/Malaysia

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

OOOh I tought Gitzo and Manfrotto were the same make and therefore both made in Italy...my mistake.

PS: I used to have one of both (Gitzo and manfrotto) both stolen... sigh....

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

But well, Daniel, tell us where are you going to go exactly?
Plan your trip with us...
Sure everybody has few tips for the countries you are going to visit...

 

[Jerome Marot]

Gitzo used to be made in France, but has been bought some years ago by the Vitec group, which also owns Manfrotto amongst others:
http://www.vitecgroup.com/OurBusinesses/ImagingStagingDivision.aspx

I think that the production of Gitzo moved to Italy when they were bought, but I am not sure where exactly they are manufactured today. From the shareholder's info:
http://www.vitecgroup.com/Portals/3/Documents/Investors/Vitec_ARA_2010.pdf
the group still has a plant in Feltre, Italy but also "subcontracts the manufacture of parts to low-cost countries". Certainly, that document has no mention of any plant in France.

 

[fahim mohammed]

Twice Sacre Bleu ( that is twice Greek expression for Holy Cow(s) back home ).

No wonder Gitzo quality and handling is not the same as before. It used to be refined and cultured and oh! so smoooooth!

Lucky I do not use tripods. Some say I do not even use a head!!

 

[fahim mohammed]

But well, Daniel, tell us where are you going to go exactly?
Plan your trip with us...
Sure everybody has few tips for the countries you are going to visit...

I shall start it off...

Paris..Place Vendome.

In Paris digital does not work.

You have to use film. From Rochester, NY.

Get into the thick of things.

Hire a band. Serenade someone. Feel good.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Health..do you have insurance? AIG? They do take pity on strangers and treat you for free.
But do visit your own doctor back home. These folks studied medicine in schools thousands of years old. So they might be outdated.

Safer to stay in Idaho!

Safe journey.

This, Fahim was the ironical, (to put it mildly) humor about ancient medical schools in Europe where Daniel is heading. How many real medical schools are actually "thousands of years old". None that I know of! Maybe you can trace the origins of a few 400 years or more. Medicine was backward until new knowledge came from overseas, from the East!

Asher, and medicine caught on in what is called the US of A when exactly?

And where were the doctors, scientists, mathematicians originally from?

Von Braun ( spelling ), Einstein, Fermi, Oppenheimer to name a few.

Surely Van Gogh et all must have been from where? Mid West?

The DNA, where was that first worked on and work published.

First heart transplant..oh, that was in South Africa of all places.

So my good friend Asher, tell me what is native to where you come from and what is imported?

Let's not talk about Penicillin.


And Columbus ( or was it Vasco de Gama ) that mistakenly discovered what?

Fahim,

You reflexly missed my point! Totally, LOL! The scientific knowledge of Europe came from the Greeks and scholars and courts of the Islamic world! The maps that Columbus used? Where did they come from? Europe was well dressed for sure but the lights were not yet turned on!

But back to chargers, Daniel are you set yet!

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Asher, you have to admit that I did turn a mundane post into something more fun!!

Otherwise years would have passed before this post had more than 120 views!!

The soul of the party..if I say so myself. ( others do too..ask Ayesha ).