Spare batteries for 550D/Rebel T2i

[Michael Sacci]

[Neil Weaver] “I can splash out “

That is a new expression for me, never seen that being used before.

[Phil Balsdon]

Buy the originals. Often other brands won’t charge in the Canon charger this means you probably need to buy the other brand charger too.

There are also stories of cheap batteries over-heating and swelling in the camera making them impossible to remove.

Two places you shouldn’t cut corners if you are a professional, batteries and storage cards. Failure of either could stuff up your whole shoot – a far more expensive disaster than spending a few extra coins on reliable and proven equipment.

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[Neil Weaver]

“That is a new expression for me, never seen that being used before.”

Must be an English thing – I dread to think what images it conjures up for you guys then!

I would also agree with you Phil about getting what you pay for although I got a spare Hahnel battery for my old XHA1 which has performed perfectly its entire life. I think I’ve had up to about 8 hours shooting on it and if memory serves it was less than half the price of the Canon battery.

[Michael Locke]

Hey Neil, days late, BUT: I’m using the original battery with 2 “Power 2000” LP-E8 for backups(2 to burn while one charges). They cost about 9$ each (WAY cheaper than Canon), and seem to have close to as much run time, and work in the charger BUT!: they give almost NO warning in the battery life window (just starts flashing red-dies in>30sec.) so YOU need to “time” them yourself, anytime the camera is shooting OR playing back review. I know there is some risk using aftermarket product, but that’s why we talk about it; so far I’m real satisfied and learned to gauge the life well. p.s. using class 4 cards too(Sandisk Ultra); only once seen the “wait/writing” warning on the cam. Biggest loss I see there is offload is slower, depending on your system (check out Rob Galbraith DPI: Card-to-Computer:SD/SDHC Readers)

[Stephen Smith]

I took a risk on the two pack of non-Canon batteries and think they work great, other then the no warning when they are out of juice. Take a look at them here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003CIHOOM/ref=oss_product

Stephen Smith
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