Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 25, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: > For the Leicas, I started buying third party batteries right after my > local store told me that the OEM batteries were $150. Now they are pushing > $200. I bought some batteries from Hong Kong, and by now have bought about > 20, which cost me in total less than $300 with shipping. Of those > batteries, 2 have failed and 2 more have low capacity. The others are OK > and have the same capacity as the OEM batteries. Of the total of 5 OEM > Leica batteries I got (bought), one went with one of the M8's I sold, 1 > died and 3 are still OK, but have no higher capacity than the third party > batteries. As none of the batteries for the Leicas have a great capacity > and as I generally leave the camera on when I'm carrying it, I go through > batteries quickly and carry a number. No problem with $15 batteries. > > It would be frustrating if the third party batteries had a 50% chance of > being poor or worse, but that certainly hasn't been my experience. At the > failure rate outlined above, and at the price differential, I can't see > myself buying another Leica battery. have you locked in on a single source for these "relatively" good third party M batteries? Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist