Now that people are getting their cameras, how has the battery life been? My kit is due to ship today and I want to know if I need a battery right away or I can wait until the 3rd party units show up.
2 is always better than one IMO
I havent run my first battery out yet, but I havent been shooting terribly much, maybe 400 exposures... still half full... ish.
Sean Mills wrote:
2 is always better than one IMO
I havent run my first battery out yet, but I havent been shooting terribly much, maybe 400 exposures... still half full... ish.
I plan on getting a 2nd (and 3rd battery), but 400 frames and still half full is pretty good. Maybe I will wait until I can get a 3rd party battery for $5.
jerrykur wrote:
I plan on getting a 2nd (and 3rd battery), but 400 frames and still half full is pretty good. Maybe I will wait until I can get a 3rd party battery for $5.
jerry
Really? Chance a $5 battery leakage in a $2700 body? Look at it this way, you get a Canon battery for 75 bucks, and IF that happens, you call one place about it (and they can't say "oh well we can't help that's not our product")..............Canon.
I bought a new battery at a local store and paid too much $100 bux. But no choice I had a wedding and no one else have it in stock. So I bought it in case I ran out of battery.
So with that said.. I did my first wedding. I used lens with IS (since IS use more battery life). The first battery drained after the ceremony with. I don't have the total count on the first battery. But the wedding I shot 1200 shot on this body and the second battery only showed 1/3 power drained.
Hope this helps.
I'm getting 3rd party battery when they become available. Maybe not the $5.00 one though
patricksurace wrote:
Really? Chance a $5 battery leakage in a $2700 body? Look at it this way, you get a Canon battery for 75 bucks, and IF that happens, you call one place about it (and they can't say "oh well we can't help that's not our product")..............Canon.
LP-E6 man.
You put a lot of faith into Canon service... I've had other experience plus I've never had my Sterlingteks fail on me and prefer them way-way-way above Canon's over-costly options.
Granted, they cost twice the $5 mentioned earlier. I'm talking 5D prices here, but if I had the chance I'd wait for their offering for the 5DII before buying into the horrendously prices Canon battery. Of course I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Canon if I'd need a spare and no alternatives were around.
Interested to see when 3rd party actually shows up. These new batteries are a bit different in the way they are designed and communicate back with the camera... Wonder how long it'll take 3rd parties to catch up.
That said... I have 2 Canon batteries. I shot a bunch of video last weekend and went through slightly over 2 batteries. I charged the 1st while using the second.
I was using a combination of IS and non-IS lenses. Video mode with IS definitely drains the battery. We did a lot of shooting over the course of about 10hrs. But mostly in sub 1min segments and lots of time between takes.
I posted this on the 5D mkII thread earlier today:
Nobody asked but it seems like the battery life is very good with the 5D mkII. I have 916 actuations, 90% were RAW and 10% the infamous sRAW, have taken 4 short video and the camera still shows 30% charge left. I have the camera set to go to sleep after 4 minutes and a review time of 4 sec which I will be turning to off.
I like the battery info quite a bit but I guess we pay for it with the price of the batteries.
patricksurace wrote:
Really? Chance a $5 battery leakage in a $2700 body? Look at it this way, you get a Canon battery for 75 bucks, and IF that happens, you call one place about it (and they can't say "oh well we can't help that's not our product")..............Canon.
LP-E6 man.
Sure. I put 3rd batteries in my 5D MK1, which was $3000+ camera. I also put them in my 1dMK2 which was a $4000 camera. The 3rd parties work better than the batteries from Canon.
