Canon LP-E8 Battery Pack for Canon Digital Rebel T2i Digital SLR Camera

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1. D. Moseley says:

   July 21, 2010 at 10:56 am

   Review by D. Moseley for Canon LP-E8 Battery Pack for Canon Digital Rebel T2i Digital SLR Camera
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   We purchased an additional battery to have while we went on vacation. We were several days into the vacation before we needed the spare and it lasted the remainder of the trip (and trust me I take alot of photos). Very pleased with purchase.
2. Yi-sheng Chiu says:

   July 21, 2010 at 11:02 am

   Review by Yi-sheng Chiu for Canon LP-E8 Battery Pack for Canon Digital Rebel T2i Digital SLR Camera
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   It works like the original battery come with DSLR. It’s over-priced but the safest battery for your expensive camera. You never know if a third-party battery would damage your camera. I use battery grip(with 2 batteries in it) and the camera last amazingly long. Long enough to shoot few days without charging.
3. Anonymous says:

   July 21, 2010 at 11:42 am

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   This product works as described and performs well. The problem with the Canon-branded battery is that it costs $[...]. There is absolutely no single reason why you should be buying this product over any of the 3rd-party manufactured equivalent batteries unless you feel like a $[...] premium over these batteries is worth simply being able to say you use Canon batteries.

   I highly recommend MaximalPower’s LP-E8 battery or Power2000′s LP-E8 battery over the Canon-branded LP-E8 battery. I have used both of these. They perform just as well as this Canon-branded battery, have never failed on me, and cost around $[...].

   The purchase of the Canon LP-E8 battery is, in my opinion, very much a no-brainer. Don’t buy it.
4. John Ohannessian says:

   July 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm

   Review by John Ohannessian for Canon LP-E8 Battery Pack for Canon Digital Rebel T2i Digital SLR Camera
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   This company is selling this battery for a ridiculously high price.
   
   Very, very expensive.
   
   Do yourself a favor and search for this battery, and you will find way lower prices.
   
   I searched on eBay, and found 3rd party models for under $10 delivered with a 1-year warranty too.
   
   Even a search here on Amazon show a lot cheaper offers.

   Update on March 30: When I first wrote about this sneaky company 2 days ago they were selling this battery for about $93. Now they dropped their exorbitant price to $79. That is still very expensive.
   
   I personally will never buy anything from this company. I don’t trust them.

   Update on April 2nd: I just noticed that this battery is being sold by different vendors, Amazon seems to change vendors on a daily basis.
   
   So do pay attention, I don’t remember who the first crooked vendor was who sold it for $98 delivered. The vendor who was selling it yesterday for $79 was “OnSale”, and today at $65 is J&R.
   
   I also agree with another reviewer here, that Canon USA is the main guilty party with very expensive accessories.
   
   Open letter to Canon: Stop gauging your customers and bring fairness to your accessories’ prices. Enough is enough.
   
   I will stop buying Canon Cameras until unfair Canon USA brings their ridiculous high prices to fair and reasonable levels.
5. ThomasH says:

   July 21, 2010 at 12:25 pm

   Review by ThomasH for Canon LP-E8 Battery Pack for Canon Digital Rebel T2i Digital SLR Camera
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   Canon specializes in fine electronics (sensors are top!), fine lenses and they also excel at making people angry. Congratulations, you are sooooo good at all of it! I wrote in the original comment: “They must have bad batteries by Nikon, they cost so little that mostly a 3rd party product does not make sense” but I was wrong: Their batteries skyrocket in prices as well. My EN-EL3e bought for $25, is $45-50 these days.

   As I see, the brand “fidelity” (or is it bigotry?) makes many here confrontational, to own disadvantage. It is a generic issue though.

   Let us just rather think if this Battery Madness is really in interest of us, consumers. The research brought amazing advances in rechargeable AA’sand AAA’s, 2700mAh is realistic nowadays. All my older photo equipment and aviation headsets use AA’s, that was so convenient, this was protecting our investment and providing us with omnipresent source of power on the road.

   These days, when we travel with our Canon, Nikon and Leica system, plus some on the road backup, we need a double octopus of cables. It takes me 15-20min time in every hotel to unpack and to repack all this stuff. Its madness, and this excessive pricing comes atop of it.

   I call it the Battery Shogunate, and as a consumer I call to stop it now. We are forced over and over again to a new battery, new charger, new vertical grip. Its mad. I would like to have my reliable, cheap to have on every corner everywhere on the planet AA’s and AAA’s back. And here we call for lawmakers to make it a requirement to sell. Period, force them by issuing a code to comply with. Other than that the Battery Samurai Shogunat will never end.