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Tilta Portable Charging Station

Amateur Photographer

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June 24, 2025

This affordable charger will top up four camera batteries at once, as Damien Demolder discovers

Tilta Portable Charging Station

The question of independent batteries versus the manufacturers' models is as old as digital cameras themselves. But now that we generally get no charger in the box when buying a camera, new opportunities arise for third parties. I have been a fan of Hahnel's ProCube series for its ability to charge two batteries at a time, but this new Tilta Portable Battery Charger can pump the juice back into four batteries at the same time, and it claims to do so much faster than a single charger.

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