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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:10 pm    Post subject: 5DII batteries Reply with quote
Are you using only genuine batteries ($$$) or some 3rd party.
I have read that some 3rd party do not show charge level in the LCD display.

It's a shame that the battery is different than the 5D/40D model. I have 6 new from Canon batteries for my original Fiver Rolling Eyes

Thanks for replies Cool


PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same problem here.

I need to buy a couple spare batteries but I will not buy batteries whose state I can not track from the camera.
Canon prepared the camera in a way that it can recognize if the battery is original. If it's not, it automatically disables the tracking.
Frigging Canon. Evil or Very Mad
The normal one are outrageously priced.


PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmmmm
That really turns me off Mad


PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
Same problem here.

I need to buy a couple spare batteries but I will not buy batteries whose state I can not track from the camera.
Canon prepared the camera in a way that it can recognize if the battery is original. If it's not, it automatically disables the tracking.
Frigging Canon. Evil or Very Mad
The normal one are outrageously priced.


No, they dont only prepair the cam.. the prepared the battery. There is a small chip inside the battery, indicating this is an original battery. The battery charger doesnt work, with batterys, which havent the chip. Its the same thing like they did with there Printers ink cardriges..

But there is a small trick. If you do use for example a Phottix Battery Grip for MKII, you can mix one original battery with an original and the battery Tracking will work. The only thing which is necessary is to indicate that there is a original battery in the grip. The second one is switched parallel, so the cam isnt able to recognize them as two separate ones.

So all batterys from other manufacturer have an own charger, because the Canon Charger do not charge them because of missing the chip inside the battery.

Cheers
Henry


PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
hinnerker wrote:

No, they dont only prepair the cam.. the prepared the battery. There is a small chip inside the battery, indicating this is an original battery. The battery charger doesnt work, with batterys, which havent the chip. Its the same thing like they did with there Printers ink cardriges..


They did prepare the batteries, but they also did prepare the camera - otherwise it would be useless taht a battery does not know that it self is not an original, if the camera is not aware also!


PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
hinnerker wrote:

No, they dont only prepair the cam.. the prepared the battery. There is a small chip inside the battery, indicating this is an original battery. The battery charger doesnt work, with batterys, which havent the chip. Its the same thing like they did with there Printers ink cardriges..


They did prepare the batteries, but they also did prepare the camera - otherwise it would be useless taht a battery does not know that it self is not an original, if the camera is not aware also!


its a kind of logic that there is a circuit in the cam and also in the charger who is able to recognize the indicating battery chip ..Very Happy

but you can drive the cam without the percent indication and with the old 3digit display or use her with the battery grip an mixed batterys..

Cheers
Henry
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