[Leica] My last aftermarket battery just died

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

I have a mix of Leica and aftermarket batteries for my M8, and a mix of 
Pentax and aftermarket batteries for my K5, and I cannot distinguish between 
them in terms of performance. I have had a few duds, but still have saved 
large amounts of money, even taking that into account. I usually do not buy 
batteries on ebay but rather in good online shops such as batteryking.eu or 
batterier.dk.

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









On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I remember the first time I ever tried to lookup something on the internet.
> And I was paying by the minute!
> There I am looking at listing of people talking about it on discussion
> groups. Why would I ever want to read those!? Just give me a reliable 
> source
> please! A review from a real reviewer, the manufactures specs. A book on
> it...
> 
> Later on things changed I was on some of those discussion groups and I'm
> realizing that when you look at a discussion with 25 people all saying a
> product  crapped out on them after a year then that's better than a
> reference to an encyclopedia or some expert or bloggers opinion or 
> certainly
> the hype from the manufacture.
> Its  the direct experience from 25 users.
> 
> This particular thread here  " My last aftermarket battery just died" 
> opened
> with a guy saying that all 25 of his aftermarket batteries are dead and a
> pile of people all concurred with the exact same experience.
> NO ONE came on and said "My aftermarket batteries have been working for me
> like a brand marked one was for years".
> Yet it has never the less evolved into quite a controversy.
> It seems that just like the use of UV filter there are people who are in 
> the
> mindset that despite all logic and history after buying a premium piece of
> gear they are going to skimp like crazy on all the stuff which makes it go.
> So its not logic which is the issue here folks..
> 
>