Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Problem is lots of them are not made from that factory, and you don't know which is which. - Phong On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > 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 > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > 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! > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > > Photography > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >