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ggreene wrote:
You won't get a consensus on a forum as the answer will be yes and no.
Which might be enough to raise concerns. A battery shouldn't be a hit and miss thing.
I used to use third party batteries regular in a 5D, but I had very bad luck with a series of third-party 5D2 batteries from a usually reliable vendor. I bought three - two didn't work at all and the third works with perhaps 25% of the charge capacity of Canon batteries.
Given that the cost of a battery is tiny compared to the cost of my other gear and, especially, the costs of making photographs, I decided that I just wasn't going to bother trying to save such a small amount of money by using unreliable batteries.
Gochugogi wrote:
I used 511 clones for years without problems. The Sterlingtrek 511 were as good or better than the OEM batteries. However, my LP-E6 clones were troublesome. Maybe it was an isolated batch but the last two I bought from Sterlingtrek were funky: one barely lasted 200 shots fully charged while the other I returned due to overheating (got stuck in the camera). So figured that was a sign from above and bought two OEM LP-E6 and they worked perfectly.
That mirrors my experience with third party LP-E6 batteries.
On the other hand, I've recently had good luck with third-party batteries for a different brand of camera. Go figure!
Dan
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