I was at an event and I seen a photographer shooting a 5D3, and they had a non-canon grip. They had to turn off their camera and take out the batteries several times.
I am interested in this, too. Probably will just get the Canon grip though, since it's supposed to be metal bodied instead of plastic. Another $275 bites the dust.
I recently purchased the Pixel Vertax BG-E11 grip, so far so good... It seems to be built well, including a metal plate on the bottom that secures the grip to the threaded tripod mount. Also, no issue with the battery drain that was associated with these grip when they were first released. Overall, I am happy with the purchase!
I wasnt shooting at the event and I generally don't talk shop with the photographers at events, I just couldn't help but think that it would suck to have to keep taking your grip off and batteries out.
I have Pixel grip on one 5DIII and Canon grip on the other.
Can't tell the difference.
It would be nice if they could use each other's battery tray. :-)
I have the Pixel Vertax on mine. I get odd behavior out of the camera on occassion. the controls on the 5d3 will not respond, or the camera will freeze up. If i power the unit off, it returns to normal. I still wouldnt pay $350 for the Canon unit.
I wonder what brand this dude had, he had to take the grip off, and batteries out (or maybe that was "his" solution to it). I remember thinking that I would've thrown the grip in the bag after the 2nd time.
When I was shooting Nikon I had the Nikon grip on my D700 and it was the type where the first battery remained in the body and the second battery was in the grip. So you had to remove the grip to get to battery inside of the body. It only took a few seconds but it was a pain compared to the one that I use on the 5D III. So far I haven't seen a battery grip that doesn't have the part that you insert into the existing battery compartment.
As far I know there is no aftermarket grip that forces you to put the grip of to exchange the batteries or put them out of the grip. But I maybe wrong.
3catsinky wrote:
I have the Pixel Vertax on mine. I get odd behavior out of the camera on occassion. the controls on the 5d3 will not respond, or the camera will freeze up. If i power the unit off, it returns to normal. I still wouldnt pay $350 for the Canon unit.
Next time this happens check the wheel on the grip. If the wheel is in between clicks your whole camera will freeze.
This is a problem with ALL Canon cameras regardless of the grip. Now, maybe your grip is more prone to this if you rub the wheel against your clothes or something but at least now you know what to do.
Ralph Conway wrote:
As far I know there is no aftermarket grip that forces you to put the grip of to exchange the batteries or put them out of the grip. But I maybe wrong.
I think the point was that the grip seemed faulty.
Epowers wrote:
Next time this happens check the wheel on the grip. If the wheel is in between clicks your whole camera will freeze.
This is a problem with ALL Canon cameras regardless of the grip. Now, maybe your grip is more prone to this if you rub the wheel against your clothes or something but at least now you know what to do.
This is interesting to find out! I have the 5D2 with Canon BG-E6, and it freezes fairly regularly as you mention. The only remedy is turning off the camera. Is this the Main Dial (fingerwheel) on the body, or the dial on the grip? I'm a little unclear how this is remedied -- just moving the dial will unfreeze the controls?
