Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have six Leica batteries, two from the initial introduction of the M8, two from the introduction of the M9 and a couple more I acquired because without a battery a digital camera is just a well styled hockey puck. All still work fine, I have them numbered and use them in sequence with no issues. It is alway a personal choice but I have found that usually when a product is cheaper there is a reason; sometimes the reason doesn't matter to my purposes and I go cheap. With the power source for my camera I will not accept a battery going dead after a few dozen shots. With the adapters for my Nex I went cheap, some have a little slop but are useable, the only one I have any real issues with is the one that takes Exacta mount because it will let the lens go with out warning. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Phong <leicaphong at gmail.com> wrote: > Problem is lots of them are not made from that factory, and you don't know > which is which. > > - Phong > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu > >wrote: > > > Except that more often than not, the aftermarket batteries are made at > > exactly the same factory as the original ones. As someone said, a sucker > is > > born every day. > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > http://www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > > Fro my Leica digital I used a Leica battery. > > > Fro my Nikon D whatever I used Nikon batteries. > > > I can tell you when the time ever comes for me to buy a seven thousand > > > dollar camera the last thing I'm going to do is go shopping for cheap > > third > > > party batteries. I'll blow a few more hundred and get a couple more > > > batteries with a red dot on it. > > > This thread has come on this list several times and every seeing time > the > > > only person who seemed to hold this opinion was me. > > > Now I am feeling vindicated up the yin yang for the tables to have been > > > turned. > > > The only way I've not won out is the fact that using the cheap > batteries > > do > > > not seemed to have ruined any cameras. I'd have thought there was a > good > > > chance that might happen. > > > > > > I read a book on batteries in photography once it was by the Aaton > > company > > > head engineer or guy own owned the company or both.. > > > A French company who made motion picture cameras and batteries. > > > Gave me a healthy respect for them. But since then the landscape has > > > changed. Its strewn with dead cheap batteries for one. ...Seeping toxic > > > waste into the top soil or water underneath. > > > > > > > > > I like expensive batteries. Silver ones. Light. Lith? > > > I say "give me the most expensive battery you got" then charge me > double! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > Photography > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com