any 1 use a 3rd party battery in there camera

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as title any one use non original battery in there camera? i just ordered a

Blumax Battery - Canon LP-E10 Battery fit at £14.98 from premier ink, half the price of a non original battery, jessops was £34.99 is my camera going to go bang lol all joking a side any 1 use a non original battery in there camera :thinking:
 
Yes.
 
Yes I've a couple of 3rd party ones.


Generally stick to known brands - Hahnel, energiser etc and not had a problem.
 
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yes you use one or yes my camera is going to go bang lol ? any probs with it and do you think it last as long as your orig camera one(y)
 
Yep, have a couple for my 40d which seem better than the original (admittedly the original is quite old so will have degraded a fair bit since it was new).

Not sure if they do them for your camera but have a look at the 7dayshop own brand batteries, as they seem to be regarded well and mine were only about £5 each.
 
Yes use one in my 7D, the genuine Canon one is down to one charging indicator, the 3rd party is still showing three charging indicators, so guess I'll buy another 3rd party one.
 
Yes I have one and yes I use it (when the genuine Nikon one runs flat). I tend to ensure the genuine battery's charged fully before going out for the day and only use the pattern (IIRC a 7dayshop own brand) when the level drops right down. Had the spare for several years and it seems to work as well as the original although I've never used it enough to discover how many shots it takes compared to the genuine one. The above relates to the batteries I use in my old D70 - I have several spare genuine Nikon ones for my D700 (they also fit the D70 but I keep them seperate since the D70's a spare spare/travel camera) and a spare genuine Nikon one for the D800. Not because I don't trust 3rd party ones but because I managed to get some of here in the classifieds (EN-EL3e) and could only source a genuine one for the D800 when I bought that.

I have a couple of compacts too and use genuines in one since I bought another camera that uses the same batteries and that came with 3 extras (off the classifieds again). In the bridge I use a genuine (as supplied with the camera) and an Ansmann 3rd party - both work fine and have similar capacities.

Note that any 3rd party batteries I have have been from reputable suppliers - I (personally) wouldn't use an e-bay sourced one, even brand new (in fact, I would regard a "genuine" battery from e-bay with suspicion!)
 
I use one for my NEX 6. It was a bargain for only £10 and it gives very similar performance to the Sony battery
 
I've got 6 LP-E6 third party batteries for my 7D and I did have 10 at one point for sharing between my 7D and 5D3. Since I updated the firmware on the 5D3 the camera is not recognising them correctly but still works well with them, however I bought some Canon ones recently to make sure I have no problem with the 5D3 in the future.

The wife also uses some third party LP-E8's in her 650D that were first bought when I had a 550D and they are still going strong over 2 years later and got a 1D3 a while ago and that has 1 genuine and 1 third party battery which works perfectly well in it. Most of the LP-E6 and LP-E8's were bought from ebay and never had a moments problem till I upgraded the firmware on the 5D3.
 
For my dslr, I have 2 genuine, but keep meaning to buy another spare, third party cheapo as extra back up. I don't find I need more than 2 at any time really, but if I was to get back to night shooting, long exposures, after the summer I'll need more juice. I had one genuine and 2 no-make batt's for the D90. And I swear one of those cheapo ones out-lasted the genuine Nikon one.

For the Fuji, I had read that the batteries don't last very long at all [turns out to be true! and the battery meter is unreliable, shortly after it dips a little from showing full, it just dies quick] so before it even arrived I ordered one genuine fuji NP-95 spare, and a third party, which was only €6.95! [towards the £32 for genuine Fuji]

So far, all 3 [inc the one that came with the cam obviously] seem to last as long after a charge, they look the same, feel about the same weight, thinking I may have been better to get a bunch of the cheap ones!
 
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cheers guys see this is what i was getting at i have been told some dont display a charge/power indicator on the display screen (modchild this is what your on about i guess?) as some 3rd party batterys dont have a chip in them? it has a 2 year guarantee. so i think it will be ok they look a ok company i found there ad in the ap mag and there also in the photoplus mag to
 
I have a spare Fuji battery courtesy of Fuji UK themselves for my X-10 and an Energiser. Like Keith, I have noticed that the latter lasts longer than the Fuji.

However in respect of my bread n butter Canons, I use OEM batteries just in case a fault should develop while using a 3rd party battery and for fear that such fault
might invalidate the warranty.
 
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I use also third party battery on my Canon 20D.

Got them from ebay - 2 battery for less than 10 pounds, incl. delivery.
So far not a problems. They last less than my original canon battery, but hey 10 pounds is almost one packet of Marlboro, so its more than ok.

Regards,
Kalin
 
Someone mentioned above that the 5D is now not playing nicely with 3rd party batteries which Ive also noticed since the firmware update bit that aside as a general observation they don't last as long. If I out one Canon and one blu... Battery(Cant remember) in a grip together, the Canon one always lasts longer. (Both similar age from fully charged)
 
I have one Canon battery & five non genuine batteries. They all perform the same & I've never had a problem in the last two years I've been using them.
 
Been using 3rd party batteries from various sources for years with no trouble,one that I bought for my 350D 6 years ago that I now use in my G7 has finally decided to die and you can't complain about that
 
I bought a Blumax from Amazon for my D300s nearly 3 years ago, performs just the same as the Nikon, honestly can't tell the difference.
 
Have used 3rd party batteries since getting my 350D. My second hand 50D came with several 3rd party batteries. Never had any problem with them and they seem to outperform the Canon ones.
 
Just in the process of testing 2 I bought complete with charger and vehicle lead for £15. So far so good and have been using another 3rd. party for 2 years with no problems. All on 50d.:)
 
Yeah I use a couple for my 60d. No problems at all. Just stick to known brands like energiser etc. Avoid the ones for five quid or so!
 
I've only had one problem with 3rd party batteries and that was some time ago with a Lumix point and shoot. After updating the firmware it wouldn't recognise it so I reverted back and all was okay.

Since then I've used 3rd party batteries in my 50D, G2, and GX1 without any problems.
 
I have a couple of Hahnel Brand, spares for my Pentax K-R they,they last 3/4s as long as the one that came with the camera, however they were less than half the price of a Pentax version, so for the same price as a Pentax battery I get 1 and 1/2 times the power buying Hahnel brand if that makes sense.
 
A mixture of genuine and 3rd party for me.

I know the third party ones aren't fitted with the magical pixie dust but its a risk I'm prepared to take ;)
 
hoochy1 said:
i have been told some dont display a charge/power indicator on the display screen (modchild this is what your on about i guess?) as some 3rd party batterys dont have a chip in them?
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The 3rd party batteries I've got show the charge/power level in the menu but just display as 'unknown battery' instead of LP-6. When you first turn the camera on after installing the battery it comes up with a message about compatability and you have to press OK to carry on, that's really the only problem.

As long as you get the 'decoded' batteries you should be able to use them with the original chargers. The 'non decoded' batteries need to be charged with a 3rd party charger, they're only about a fiver on ebay anyway, but I've not tried any of them in my 5D3.
 
In all my cameras - except the D7000 ( no need, the one supplied lasts forever!!)
 
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Got two 7day shop ones for my 7D in addition to the original one and can't see any difference between them:)
 
I have a 3rd party battery for my D90, it's more of a backup really.

The rule of thumb is not to buy one that's designed to look identical to the genuine article, I don't trust replicas and after a few months of swapping it can be impossible to know which battery is in your camera, which could one day lead to failure and your genuine battery left at home.

The one I have in the D90 seems good, but the fake I had in the old D40x would shut the camera down if I tried to use the onboard flash.
 
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I have a 3rd party battery for my D90, it's more of a backup really.

The rule of thumb is not to buy one that's designed to look identical to the genuine article, I don't trust replicas and after a few months of swapping it can be impossible to know which battery is in your camera, which could one day lead to failure and your genuine battery left at home.

The one I have in the D90 seems good, but the fake I had in the old D40x would shut the camera down if I tried to use the onboard flash.
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I can see your point but I won't have that problem with not knowing the difference with mine as my genuine one says 'canon' on it and my 2 3rd party ones don't.
 
camera makers don't make their own batteries, they source them from outside specialists.
When you buy a look-alike it might some times be the identical battery.
 
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camera makers don't make their own batteries, they source them from outside specialists.
When you buy a look-alike it might some times be the identical battery.
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Your pretty much correct, but there are risks with cut price lithium batteries. It pays to be aware.

They might be missing the internal thermistor circuit (attached to the middle terminal) designed to tell the charger to stop if things start to get warm. I recently bought a cheap solar phone charger/pack where this had been disconnected.

Generally speaking the charger will stop before this point as the battery reaches full charge 4.2v (for a 3.7v battery) or 8.4v (I think for the 7.4v??), but as the battery ages it might not reach this point before it starts to overheat and a li-po/li-ion fire is not something to be sniffed at.

Dell had a problem with their laptop batteries some years ago (around 2006), they had the potential to overheat and catch fire. Which proves the point that even the manufacturers can get caught out by bad suppliers, without going anywhere near Ebay or cheap retailers.

That said, I have one and i've no problem with it at all. I'm just careful to keep an eye on it during charging and (for no real reason) I never leave it in my camera.
 
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