Buying Batteries online

sheesh

Hi all recently tried to buy Camera Batteries and it seems like a lot of places will not ship to Ireland.
Where are you lot buying your batteries?

thanks


Found a place on Ebay that will take my money.

please ignore

ED E

My clonce packs last almost exactly 50% as long as the OEM pack, so keep that in mind.

Heebie

I found vendors on Amazon for Pentax-compatible aftermarket lithium-ion batteries, and the Amazon Basics AA and AAA rechargeable batteries seem to work well in speedlights etc..

sheesh

thanks guys

funny thing happened I bought a camera grip (€30) and my 2 batteries that would not hold charge on their own lasted a whole day of shooting in the battery grip! so i have those and some rechargeable batteries. so i am ok

ED E

sheesh wrote: »

thanks guys

funny thing happened I bought a camera grip (?30) and my 2 batteries that would not hold charge on their own lasted a whole day of shooting in the battery grip! so i have those and some rechargeable batteries. so i am ok

Probably low draw cells, cant handle being "stressed" so 50% load lets them function.

Heebie

It could also be that the camera is looking for some specific signal or value in the battery, and refusing to use it without that signal/value.. and that the battery grip is providing that signal/value on behalf of the battery when it's connected to the camera.

(This is done a lot to try & lock consumers into buying only brand-name merchandise.. such as Dell embedding a signal in the output of their power supplies that instructs Dell laptops that they are "allowed to" charge the battery... if you use an aftermarket power supply, it will run the laptop, but not charge the battery, unless the company that manufactured the power supply managed to decode and emulate the correct signal output by "authentic" Dell power supplies.)