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    Re: Battery grips



    Quote Originally Posted by Chris White
    .Since I shoot a lot with 2.8 lenses, another half-a-pound is not really noticeable to me and a good trade off for the better balanced feeling.




    I should mention that I'm in the same boat. Between the 5DII and the 24-70L, my camera is already a beast to carry, so the extra half pound is totally worth it to "get a grip" on all that weight. I don't even have a spare battery yet, maybe if I start shooting more video or weddings, right now I can get 1200+ shots on one charge, so the grip is strictly for ergonomics.


    I had a Rebel XT before the 5DII, so that thing was easy enough to handle w/o one, but I think that with any of the bigger, heavier cameras, the grip is a must.

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    Just my 2 cents but I don't like the battery grips Canon makes. For me they completely ruin the best feature of the non-pro bodies, namely their relatively small size.


    The grips look goofy to me..so big and bulky, they're obviously an afterthought to the body design, they scream "add-on" from every angle. I like longer battery life as much as the next guy but turning my camera into a 2-piece, 1-series wannabe... [:P]


    I wish Canon would design an attachment that adds theportrait button functionality without the
    cumbersome battery holder
    . That would be a great tool. Add a 1/2" in height instead of 2, weigh the
    same as a battery instead of a pound (with 2 batteries the BG-E4 weighs 13.2oz) and give you a portrait release and a back-focus button. Make it compatible with the AC adapters so I don't have to remove it whenever I want to use AC power. And please lose the silly separate on/off switch. (talk about goofy...!)


    I'm glad everyone else loves
    it. But to me the crop-sensor bodies and the 5D lines are so good because they deliver
    images on par with the pro bodies without being big, heavy pro bodies. I'll be keeping mine - 90% of the time - as nature intended... []

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    Re: Battery grips



    Quote Originally Posted by canoli
    I wish Canon would design an attachment that adds theportrait button functionality without the
    cumbersome battery holder
    . That would be a great tool. Add a 1/2" in height instead of 2 ...and give you a portrait release and a back-focus button.

    Have to disagree there. First off, the battery grip (at least the one for my 7D) adds 1.75", not 2". That's especially relevant when you measure the space needed for the 3 buttons - AF point selection, AE Lock, and AF-ON - that space is ~1.25" on the camera body. The spacing is the same on the grip - and it had damn well better be, since I want the same button and placement on the grip otherwise changing orientation is not convenient. So, adding the battery compartment adds only 1/2" to the necessary size of the grip - a pretty minor difference. In fact, they could probably design the battery compartment to take up no extra space, meaning a 1.25" thick grip instead of a 1.75" thick grip. Why didn't they? In portrait orientation, you still have to hold the camera. If the grip was only 1/2" high it wouldn't be much of a grip - the point of a grip is that it should be comfortable to hold. The definition of grip is, "part of, or attachment to, an object, allowing it to be moved or used by hand." They could make the grip on a tennis racquet or a golf club the same relatively thin diameter as the shaft - but that would be a crappy tennis racquet or golf club, and your game would suffer as a result. Imagine if they shrunk the grip portion of the camera body to a thinner dimension. Would your camera still be comfortable to hold?


    If I had a wish that Canon would grant on the subject of battery grips, it would be to add a multifunction controller (aka joystick), for AF point selection, to the grip.


    Just my 2¢.

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    I used a grip on my Rebel XT, almost a must have for that small camera. And I now use one on my 7D, it doesn't feel right to use it without one.

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    hmm guess I struck a nerve... you must really like those battery grips...



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