Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fro my Leica digital I used a Leica battery. Fro my Nikon D whatever I used Nikon batteries. I can tell you when the time ever comes for me to buy a seven thousand dollar camera the last thing I'm going to do is go shopping for cheap third party batteries. I'll blow a few more hundred and get a couple more batteries with a red dot on it. This thread has come on this list several times and every seeing time the only person who seemed to hold this opinion was me. Now I am feeling vindicated up the yin yang for the tables to have been turned. The only way I've not won out is the fact that using the cheap batteries do not seemed to have ruined any cameras. I'd have thought there was a good chance that might happen. I read a book on batteries in photography once it was by the Aaton company head engineer or guy own owned the company or both.. A French company who made motion picture cameras and batteries. Gave me a healthy respect for them. But since then the landscape has changed. Its strewn with dead cheap batteries for one. ...Seeping toxic waste into the top soil or water underneath. I like expensive batteries. Silver ones. Light. Lith? I say "give me the most expensive battery you got" then charge me double! -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/