[Leica] My last aftermarket battery just died

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Except that more often than not, the aftermarket batteries are made at 
exactly the same factory as the original ones. As someone said, a sucker is 
born every day.

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
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YNWA









On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 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!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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