M8 aftermarket batteries - links please

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Hi all

It seems very hard to find stock of the official Leica battery for the M8, and since I plan to use it for weddings I need a few anyway (like 5 or 6, so eighty quid each is bit much!)

Can anyone link to known good aftermarket ones please? Not just any old supplier, but ones you have experience of as being worthwhile - there's a wide range of reports as to their quality

Thanks
 
I'm an idiot. I had been meaning to stock up on 3 batteries. And then the price went up. I kept putting it off and now it's going to cost me $60 more out of laziness.

I own two original batteries and one off brand battery I got from adorama. It's their Power2000 brand. It's really flaky. It'll hold a charge. But sometimes the battery meter will show up empty and other times it'll show up full. if any one knows of third party batteries that are flawless let me know.
 
A few others on the forum and myself have batteries from the following eBay seller: http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/loo100us

However, please do a search on their caveats before using them for something as hectic as a wedding (nothing serious, mainly the battery meter is not accurate - but when the batteries are £6-7 each, you can have 10 and change them whenever you want).
 
I wouldn't recommend aftermarket batteries. I have had mixed feelings about them and they have never lasted.
 
Ok, be cool to hear how you get on with them.

The bit in the manual that mentions how they won't honour warranty claims if they think it's down to aftermarket batteries is a bit of a worry, though how they'd know is debatable....
 
Hi. I had a battery from eurobattery.com - not good. As it ditn´t work, they told med taht tere were different kind of M8s, and I ordered the wrong one!
 
I'm in a similar position but would never buy third party batteries.

Why would you spend out on an M8 and then jeapordise it by saving a few pounds/dollars/euros on a generic battery?
 
The problem I've found here on the east coast US and online in the rest of the country, all of the 14464 OEM batteries are out of stock at every retailer I have tried to reach.

The batteries which i ordered from batterybuyer.com as i posted a while back never reached me as they are also out of stock of the generics.

I'm on three or four email watch lists with bigger retailers of OEM batteries so I can know when they come in.

Phil Forrest
 
Yesterday I received my z54 battery from loo100us on ebay ... charged it last night and will be trying it out over the next few weeks. Will report back!

BTW, it took a while to receive... nearly three weeks. I imagine because it was sent standard post from China to the U.S. If you do order it, be patient.
 
My experience with aftermarket batteries is afwull. I bought them at a brick and morter store for my g7 an the little casio my wife has. Both failed the canon within 10 charges, the casio of my wife is used less and took a few months. Bought for the canon again a aftermarket and it failed within a week. So I went in for a refund and bought an orriginal part. It's so lousy to have a fully charged battery do nothing.
 
I tried two different aftermarket batteries and neither gave good results. the battery meter was all over the place with my M8.2 so I bought 3 extra OEM before the price went up.
 
DRabbit said:
Yesterday I received my z54 battery from loo100us on ebay ... charged it last night and will be trying it out over the next few weeks. Will report back!

BTW, it took a while to receive... nearly three weeks. I imagine because it was sent standard post from China to the U.S. If you do order it, be patient.
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Yeah, just ordered one myself and it took me that long too in the UK - thought it must be lost in post.

Charged mine up and tried out, all seems fine so far. I mean it cost me £10 - Ffordes are charging £98.99 for a Leica battery now, no brainer really even if you needed to buy 3 or 4 of these. ;)
 
I went out shooting today with the one I bought from loo100us (ebay) and all seemed to work fine so far. Had no problems with the battery reading as "full" on the top display. It all worked as expected, and at least so far, just as good as the Leica one.

I will say, I had my first experience with aftermarket batteries with the E-P1. I bought a Maximal Power one through Amazon and it has worked outstanding. Zero issues.

Even IF the ebay one only lasts me a year, it's still a better deal than the Leica one. At a 1/10 of the price it would take like 30 years before I lost money. I can live with that.
 
Aftermarket batteries I have had, either just died, or discharged in the camera making it rxtremely warm to the touch. I threw them out. Not worth ruining a 5K camera to save a few dollars with a cheap Chinese battery.
 
I use a couple of cheap Chinese replacements I sourced from eBay and they've been fine. They don't quite give the 400+ shots the genuine battery gives but they're not far off it and the battery level indicator seems to behave normally.
 
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