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I would like to get an extra spare battery for my EOS 90d but was surprised how much they cost. About £114.00 for a Canon or approx £60 for a third party battery. Any thoughts on this or alternative types would be helpful, and are they any good? Thanks.
 
I had a Duracell one for my 80D. It was ok but not as high capacity as the Canon one so didn't last as long. I used it as my spare / emergency battery. Nice to see Canon continuing their policy of insane prices for stuff like batteries as well as cameras and lenses
 
RichardC27 said:
I had a Duracell one for my 80D. It was ok but not as high capacity as the Canon one so didn't last as long. I used it as my spare / emergency battery. Nice to see Canon continuing their policy of insane prices for stuff like batteries as well as cameras and lenses
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Yes I agree that third party batteries do not have the same capacity. However now bought this and will keep it as a spare. Thanks.
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The problem with 3rd party ones is that they can expand inside the camera when they fail and get stuck.
 
I’ve been using various third party batteries for years on various Canon cameras with no issues
at the moment am using DSTE and Annsmann both are good
they are cheap enough that I can carry several spares
 
Mintchocs said:
The problem with 3rd party ones is that they can expand inside the camera when they fail and get stuck.
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Do you have any stats for us to measure that risk?
I’m a small sample size, but over 20 years I’ve had 3rd party batteries in all my cameras (9).
And not only has this never been an issue for me. This is the first time I’ve heard a suggestion it might be.
 
Camera batteries are lithium batteries. They need to be made to high specifications and high quality standards as they pose a fire risk. If you trust the third party manufacturer then by all means use them.
 
There's an obvious answer to prevent a battery swelling to the point of being unable to extract it: take the battery out when you're not using the camera (for the day I mean, not between shots) because in the unlikely event of a battery swelling they don't do it instantly rather over a period of time (weeks/months)
 
I use expro batteries, the white ones and never had a problem with any of them. They also charge fine in the Nikon charger.
 
Phil V said:
I’m a small sample size, but over 20 years I’ve had 3rd party batteries in all my cameras (9).
And not only has this never been an issue for me. This is the first time I’ve heard a suggestion it might be.
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Another anecdata point here - in 25 years old working with lithium batteries (IT, laptops) I can recall 3 occasions where a lithium battery has swelled - all 3 were subject to recall & replacement for manufacturing defects.

Duracell mostly for third party but I've recently been trying the Neewer LP-E6NH replacements (2 for £53ish with a charger) - early signs look good and at £53 for 2 versus best UK price for the Canon of £99 I can get nearly 4...
 
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I second the Neewer ones. Been using them for about a year in my R5 and no issues.

Still got a hahnal LP-E6 bought with my 7D in 2012. Still works ok as well.

The neewer 2 in one charger is useful but pretty slow to charge though!
 
There is a school of thought that suggests slower charging is better for the longevity of the battery... Also the Neewer charger depends on the output of the USB source and the cable.

2 apparently identical USB C cables here one charges at 600mA, the other at 980...
 
Mintchocs said:
Camera batteries are lithium batteries. They need to be made to high specifications and high quality standards as they pose a fire risk. If you trust the third party manufacturer then by all means use them.
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Do you believe that canon, Nikon, Fuji make their own batteries?
 
All of my cameras, including my Canon 90D and 77D (2), and a Canon T7i are running on BM (Big Mike) batteries purchased through Amazon. I have battery grips on all of the Canon cameras and several pairs of these BM batteries as spares for each camera plus the pair residing in each camera. I've been using these batteries for 2-3 years without a single problem. A significant benefit of using these is that the Canon cameras don't detect that they are not Canon batteries, so the warning screen never shows when installing freshly charged batteries, and the battery charge level indicators work with them. Just search Amazon for BM Batteries and your camera model number. You can get two batteries plus a dual USB charger for less than a single Canon battery.

Charley
 
Nikon f1.8 said:
I use expro batteries, the white ones and never had a problem with any of them. They also charge fine in the Nikon charger.
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I had one for my Fuji, bought at the same time as my camera, in 2018. I alternated it with the Fuji battery until in 2022 I noticed that the Expro battery was not lasting very long. When I started to pay more attention to it I noticed that it was only lasting about a quarter of the time of the Fuji one. So although it didn't swell up and get stuck in the camera, I was not impressed with the longevity of it and replaced with an OEM Fuji battery.
Phil V said:
Do you believe that canon, Nikon, Fuji make their own batteries?
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Nope, but I believe that they will have more stringent quality checks and requirements for their suppliers than an unknown brand.
 
hunnymonster said:
Another anecdata point here - in 25 years old working with lithium batteries (IT, laptops) I can recall 3 occasions where a lithium battery has swelled - all 3 were subject to recall & replacement for manufacturing defects.

Duracell mostly for third party but I've recently been trying the Neewer LP-E6NH replacements (2 for £53ish with a charger) - early signs look good and at £53 for 2 versus best UK price for the Canon of £99 I can get nearly 4...
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I've had two items where I know the battery has swollen. One was an Apple Macbook Pro - the old type prior to the metal casing. Another was a mobile phone - the casing distorted and would not lay flat. There may well have been other items where the battery is integrated and impossible to access without destroying the item.

I've always preferred genuine batteries and of my various cameras, the problems have always been with aftermarket batteries. One camera would simply not recognise the aftermarket battery, and another which came with a secondhand body would run out of juice much faster than the genuine one, despite claiming an identical capacity.

I do begrudge paying the RRP of genuine batteries, so wait until I see special offers, or buy 'nearly new' from people upgrading their kit. Once I ended up with a counterfeit battery, but the platform I bought it from, either Amazon or ebay, were on my side.

I refuse to even consider the really cheap batteries because I don't want my house to burn down.

I'm sure the batteries from a reputable supplier are likely to be OK though.
 
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I prefer to use OEM batteries but recently we've had to go with a Duracell for my wife's D5000 as Nikon no longer supply them. Only used it once so far so data on effectiveness is minimal.
 
Phil V said:
Do you believe that canon, Nikon, Fuji make their own batteries?
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No, but they would have a contract with a major producer and part of that would involve stringent quality control checks. I would presume that the contract would also possibly not permit that battery manufacturer to sell identical batteries under a different name as it would reduce a revenue stream and allow for counterfeiting where it would be extremely difficult to tell the batteries apart.
 
Mintchocs said:
The problem with 3rd party ones is that they can expand inside the camera when they fail and get stuck.
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I've always used a mix of official and third party batteries in all my cameras. This has never happened to me, ever. I tend to use the third party ones as my emergency spare so they only get used every now and then. Maybe if you're hammering them day in and day out this could potentially be an issue, but I'd imagine this can happen to an official battery too. It's not like Canon, Sony, Fuji etc are using some magical chemistry inside their batteries. There will be a failure rate for those too.

The only time I've ever experienced a swelling battery was on my old work supplied Dell laptop. That had an official Dell battery in it.
 
andrewc said:
I've had two items where I know the battery has swollen.
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So your anecdote suggests that there is no tangible difference between the premium original manufacturer part (which definitely swelled) and a glue & go one from some random online tat bazaar (which you fear might swell)...

I've not had a camera battery swell : premium or otherwise - sure I've not bought the lowest price one from AliExpress/similar - but a manufacturer that should know about manufacturing batteries (Duracell) - even though all Duracell batteries are very likely to be contract manufactured, they still have a reputation to protect.

I'm trying Neewer just now since they are developing a decent reputation for reasonable durability at under a third of the cost of the OE part - will it last as long as the OE part, possibly not but I got 3 - will those 3 reasonable ones outlast 1 OE part - very probably.

Also the point remains that batteries generally do not swell instantaneously - so if it is regularly removed from the camera the risk of it catastrophically expanding and getting stuck in situ is negligible.
 
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