New Battery Needed (Page 2): Using the flash or shooting in live view decreases the battery life significantly, according to Canon. Are you shooting with either or both?

BuckeyeBilly Loc: St. Petersburg, FL

authorizeduser wrote:

I have a Canon 80D which is about 3 years old and ... (show quote)

Using the flash or shooting in live view decreases the battery life significantly, according to Canon. Are you shooting with either or both?

Electric Gnome Loc: Norwich UK

I have some Duracell batteries for both my Nikon D850 and D7100 they don't last quiet as long as the Nikon ones but have had no problems with them at all.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Wasabi can be as good, and even better in my experience, than OEM. Sometimes they aren’t.
Go ahead and try, can’t hurt.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

authorizeduser wrote:

I have a Canon 80D which is about 3 years old and ... (show quote)

They work fine. Buy two or three so you can have a spare charged and ready.

markwilliam1

authorizeduser wrote:

I have a Canon 80D which is about 3 years old and ... (show quote)

I must have bad luck because I bought 2 Wasabi batteries for my Sony RX10M4 and Both battery’s swelled or expanded where I couldn’t get them out of the camera! Never again they weren’t even a year old! Went to Rav.

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

There are many threads on here on OEM batteries that are quite excellent. Do a search and take a look.
I happen to like the Kastar batteries. Seem to be just as good as the original in my 6D and 77D.

lsaguy Loc: Udall, KS, USA

Just had the two Wasabi batteries and charger arrive last Saturday for my Nikon D300. Took a charge and one is in the camera right now. No difference with Nikon En-El3e which also charged on Wasabi charger. Less than $20 and has an in car charger adapter, too.

Rick

eadler

I've got two Wasabi batteries and they're pretty bad although they are far cheaper cheaper than than the OEM battery. The OEM battery is better the Wasabi not that great either and it's expensive. Bottom line battery science has a ways to go

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

authorizeduser wrote:

I have a Canon 80D which is about 3 years old and ... (show quote)

You really won't know until you try them. I have tried 3rd party batteries and will never buy them again. B&H gave me a free Watson battery with a purchase I made from them and it doesn't even register correctly with my 5D IV. A warning pops up that says it may not be compatible. I've got OEM Canon batteries that came with or I purchased for my original Canon 7D body that still works in my 7D II, and my 5D IV. They also worked in my 5D III. I've got one of those 8 or 9 year old batteries in my 7D II now, that works fine even though I only have one red bar on the wellness indicator. It still gives me about 1200 images per charge in my 7D II. That said, I did have one battery I got for my 5D III that gave me problems when it gets warm in use. My camera would just shut off. It was 1 battery in about 12 batteries of the same Canon make and model that fits all those camera bodies. I tossed it and I will replace with new one of these days. But since all those old batteries are still working so well, it may be another year or 2 before I buy new batteries.

RoswellNM Loc: SW Indiana

Ditto TerryVS. Used aftermarket a couple of times and got burned. Use Nikon cameras and Nikon batteries. (The worst burn was outside Chaing Mai, Thailand, but luckily!!! had brought battery grip and had some AAs. That got me through.).
Stick with OEM. MHO 😉

RoswellNM Loc: SW Indiana

Ditto TerryVS. Used aftermarket a couple of times and got burned. Use Nikon cameras and Nikon batteries. (The worst burn was outside Chaing Mai, Thailand, but luckily!!! had brought battery grip and had some AAs. That got me through.).
Stick with OEM. MHO 😉

authorizeduser Loc: Monroe, Michigan

BuckeyeBilly wrote:

Using the flash or shooting in live view decreases the battery life significantly, according to Canon. Are you shooting with either or both?

Flash from time to time, never live view.

authorizeduser Loc: Monroe, Michigan

lsaguy wrote:

Just had the two Wasabi batteries and charger arrive last Saturday for my Nikon D300. Took a charge and one is in the camera right now. No difference with Nikon En-El3e which also charged on Wasabi charger. Less than $20 and has an in car charger adapter, too.

Rick

The proof will be in how long they last ..........

authorizeduser Loc: Monroe, Michigan

eadler wrote:

I've got two Wasabi batteries and they're pretty bad although they are far cheaper cheaper than than the OEM battery. The OEM battery is better the Wasabi not that great either and it's expensive. Bottom line battery science has a ways to go

From what I have read, some get excellent service from Wasabi and others not so much. However this seems to be true no matter what brand you choose. Appears to be a crap shoot with some brands having more issues than others. The Wasabi LP-E6 battery is $10.99 so I guess I will give it a shot. Risk is minimal. Has to be better than my 3 year old failing Canon battery which only gives me about 100 shots per charge. If I get burned, I am only out $10.99 and will stick with OEM Canon. Of all the 3rd party batteries I have investigated, Wasabi seems to have the least amount of reported issues and is recommended most by reviewers. We shall see .........

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Besides OEM batteries for my 6d2 and 7d2, I have a variety of others that cycle through the two bodies. I’ve never actually counted or compared number of clicks between batteries, but I would expect that I get about 1/2 to 2/3 exposures out of the non-OEM compared to the Canons. That said, I’ve never had an issue with the non-OEMs, nor have I ever had to cut short a shoot due to a expired battery.