Re: Canon LP-E6N battery-stick with OEM or is generic good enough
rscheffler wrote:
A battery use observation with the R6II and BG-R10 grip after shooting one half of a football game at a few degrees below freezing. Grip had one each Canon LP-E6NH and Neewer LP-E6NH. Both batteries have about one month's worth of use, probably under 10 charge cycles.
The camera/grip appears to balance power use from the batteries so that they discharge at a similar rate. Both were at 70% at the half, +/- a percent or two. But the Canon battery was attributed to 30% more images than the Neewer.
For the second half, I installed two Canon LP-E6NH batteries. One was the same age as the Canon battery used for the first half. The other was older, but I'm not sure how much older because it came with a loaner camera. At the end of the game, again, the percentage charge remaining was very similar, but this time so were the number of images attributed to each battery.
I typically mix batteries in the grip - one Canon and one Neewer - so that when in EFCS mode, the camera will maintain peak fps rates for a longer period than using two Neewer batteries in the grip. That said, for the football game I used only e-shutter where this isn't relevant. But it got me curious if the 30% better image count with the Canon battery is an indication of the average performance difference between OEM and third party batteries.
Just a follow up observation about 9 months later after another football game. Same strategy as before - one Canon LP-E6NH and one Neewer clone in the BG-R10 grip. As before, more actuations were attributed to the Canon battery than the Neewer, but this time the difference was about 50% more for the Canon, which implies a widening performance gap between the two.
Sep 11, 2023 at 11:09 PM
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