3rd Party Batteries

[Alan]

If I had to buy a spare 5D II battery today, I might rethink this.
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I thought $100 was sky high, until I saw your latest news on the 5D Mk 2 battery from OneCall. $150!!!!! Yikes!!

[Keith B]

I'm still a little irked I had to buy a Canon spare 5Dmk2 battery for $90 because they were no 3rd parties available yet. I guess at the time I was lucky to get the Canon version.


I bought a spare from Duracell Direct for my 40D once it seemed fine except it didn't come with a cover. It probably doesn't lastquiteas long as the Canon but for what I paid, I don't care.

[Mark Elberson]

Thanks everyone. Itappears to beunanimous []

[TSEvanson]

I purchased2 batteries for my Digital Rebel (300D) on ebay for $10. I was worried at first as I have read some negative things about third party, but they have been every bit as good as the Canon for the past year. I guess there is more risk involved, but it worked out for me.

[Jayson]

Stupid question, but I am going to ask it anyway...


Do you use the battery charger that came with your camera and battery to charge the 3rd party ones or do you need to purchase a new charger too? Sorry for the question but I needed to ask it before I buy a 3rd party battery. Thanks.

[Keith B]

Stupid question, but I am going to ask it anyway...


Do you use the battery charger that came with your camera and battery to charge the 3rd party ones or do you need to purchase a new charger too? Sorry for the question but I needed to ask it before I buy a 3rd party battery. Thanks.

Withdrawn. I should know better.

[Jayson]

Withdrawn. I should know better.

I know...

[Daniel Browning]

Do you use the battery charger that came with your camera and battery to charge the 3rd party ones?

Usually: yes. But sometimes not. For example, the knock-off batteries for my 5D2 wont charge in the Canon charger so they are sold with their own charger. (The reason Canon's charger wont charge them is probably because Canon checks for authentic ID chips in the batteries and the Chinese haven't reverse-engineered them yet... usually takes about six months to crack that stuff.)

[Alan]

I picked up 2 batteries, with a charger, from eBay, for my 5D Mk 2. $36. They work great.


The Canon battery is going up in price. I saw it for $100 at Adorama. It used to be $80, which is still ridiculously high.

[ShutterbugJohan]

The only Canon battery I have doesn't hold a charge for more than 5 minutes. :-(


The rest of my batteries are made by Synergy Digital.


--Johan