Actually, I have the opposite experience. I have two or three batches
of 4 1600 mAh Oly-brand batteries, they're about 5 years old. When
comparing with similarly rated (new) Uniross and Energizer
rechargeables, the Oly-brand gives me about twice as many shots of my
flashes than does the two other brands. Strange, but true.
I'll probably pick up Oly-brand again - yes, they're overpriced, but
the experiences cited above have convinced me that they're worth it.
Now, the scientist in me wonders why it is like this.
--thomas
On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Martyn Smoothy wrote:
>
> Bought a Uniross battery to use as a spare with my e-1 back in
> January. No
> discernible difference between it & the Olympus battery which came
> with the
> camera. Despite the dire warnings from some list members at the
> time I can
> see no reason to pay the extortionate prices being asked (at least
> here in
> the UK) for Oly branded batteries.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of AG Schnozz
> Sent: 03 August 2006 23:34
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] E-1 Battery Clones
>
>
> Last year I bought a BLM-1 clone battery from CompUSA. I've
> used in in rotation with the OEM battery that came with the E-1.
> This battery consistantly gives me about 90% of the runtime of
> the OEM and does give identical voltage readings (with and
> without load).
>
> Just bought a second one a couple weeks ago.
>
> These are light-grey colored and go by the "DIGITAL Concepts"
> brand. BTW, I've had tremendous success with the "DIGITAL"
> rechargeable AA batteries at WalMart. The latest set of
> four(including the 20 minute charger) cost a mere pittance and
> have actually kept my flash going for entire weddings and
> events.
>
> AG-Priming the Pump-Schnozz
>
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