Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M8 batteries
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue Jul 22 09:38:48 2008
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At 11:20 AM -0500 7/22/08, Chris Williams wrote:
>I'm sure this is going to be a dumb question, but are any of the off 
>brand M8 batteries any good? $120 for an M8 battery vs $50 for off 
>brand.
>
>I have some off brand Nikon batteries that work great so I was just 
>curious. Like any of these companies really make batteries anyway.
>
>Chris
>NOLA

I have 8 batteries for the M8; 2 are original and the rest were all 
at about $7. So far, one of the originals and one of the cheap ones 
are at about 50%; the rest are fine. I will not buy OEM batteries, 
especially at Leica prices.

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