Dude can I just say how much I appreciate you for keeping it concise and not doing a 10 minute rambling video?! No intro just hey, here’s my experience. Thanks for watching. 10/10 for the video. Subbed/liked
Thanks for the review. Unfortunately I purchase 2 Smallrig batteries for my R5 instead of the OME Canon battery. My performance was 2/3. You are right as a wedding and event shooter it is not worth it
Thanks for this very concise review. I figured these Smallrig batteries would not be up to snuff with the Canon manufactured models. My experience with third party batteries has been disappointing. They aren't worth the front end savings.
Totally get it. I will say one thing. i have shot an entire Real Estate shoot with the K&F branded batteries with much better results. They are the version before the USB charge port. I think at the end of the day Canon batteries are the price they are because of reliability. They are pricy for sure
Thanks for the short honest review not to have to skip through intros is making reviews much easier to watch 😂 I was wondering if you had tried the K&F concept batteries with type C rechargeable port, they state that the battery can shoot up to 3000 photo and 3 hours video but can’t find any review of it
Interesting. I should test my DSTE DMW-BLK22 against my originals Panasonic DMW-BLK22 batteries (Lumix S5IIX). In video, they have served me just as well as the originals and they cost less than half of one original DMW-BLK22 for 2 of them and an USB-C dual charger. I know it’s common knowledge that 3rd party batteries aren’t usually worth it (especially for professionnal work), but those ones really seem to hold up
I bought my 80D from a shop and got an 1800 mah Canon battery and bought the SmallRig one, got 3295 shutter count with 69% remaining (was at a NASCAR event) I don’t know if it’s the DSLR vs mirrorless but the original canon battery sucks even though it’s at full recharge capacity.
SLR eats battery much faster. For sports shooting on Canon 5dMKIII I used 2 batteries per day for 8-10K shoots. For R6 I needed 4-5 batteries for the same project
In the past I've tried a few different third party batteries and have never been impressed. I'll stick with Canon, even though they are on th pricey side, you get what you pay for.
WOAH! But it needs to "settle" or something first, obviously its not going to suddenly find the missing 45% :P but who knows. a video record time test could be better
@@ThePhotographerGuy I do think that they would be a decent alternative for a trip where you have to depend on your own power bank to keep camera batteries charged and you are (like myself) a DSLR shooter. Better to have half the power than to have no power... That type of situation is all that I can think of when these would be feasible.
Strangely, I bought a 3rd party battery charger just to have usbc, it came with 3 batteries that I thought would be trash. They've worked amazingly for the past couple months. I put two in my battery grip and they last me 7+ hours on an event day even better than my LP-E6NH's. First time having 3rd party batteries perform well.
I will add I always charge the batteries inside the charger they came with. So far so good! Also important to note mAh aren't a good measurement of power (wild considering every manufacturer uses it for marketing). What you want to look at is watt hours. That's your actual unit of power since mAh are dependent on the voltage being used. So the smallrig may show a higher mAh but actually be smaller capacity than the E6NH's.
@@ThePhotographerGuy so sorry! For some reason didn't get your notifications! It is from a no-name brand called First Power. Not sure if it'll let me add the Amazon link but I'll try to add it.
Thanks and great test. Interesting results. Saw a video shooter get 2 hrs from the SmallRig and 2:16 from the canon, so perhaps results vary depending on what you shoot.
Half the price, half the capacity. Interesting. I feel like my R6 drains my Canon LP-E6NH equally as fast as my Smallrig version. But I haven't tested it.
Dude can I just say how much I appreciate you for keeping it concise and not doing a 10 minute rambling video?! No intro just hey, here’s my experience. Thanks for watching. 10/10 for the video. Subbed/liked
haha. thanks. Trying to make them shorter as I go.
I second this!!
Thanks for the review. Unfortunately I purchase 2 Smallrig batteries for my R5 instead of the OME Canon battery. My performance was 2/3. You are right as a wedding and event shooter it is not worth it
a sub 2-minute review with no fluff? Hell yeah, 11/10 🙌
Thanks for this very concise review. I figured these Smallrig batteries would not be up to snuff with the Canon manufactured models. My experience with third party batteries has been disappointing. They aren't worth the front end savings.
Totally get it. I will say one thing. i have shot an entire Real Estate shoot with the K&F branded batteries with much better results. They are the version before the USB charge port. I think at the end of the day Canon batteries are the price they are because of reliability. They are pricy for sure
They are priced so high, due to them having the highest profit margin in % -everybody needs batteries, so let's DRM ours and then jack-up the prices.
Thanks for the short honest review not to have to skip through intros is making reviews much easier to watch 😂
I was wondering if you had tried the K&F concept batteries with type C rechargeable port, they state that the battery can shoot up to 3000 photo and 3 hours video but can’t find any review of it
I haven't.
Interesting. I should test my DSTE DMW-BLK22 against my originals Panasonic DMW-BLK22 batteries (Lumix S5IIX). In video, they have served me just as well as the originals and they cost less than half of one original DMW-BLK22 for 2 of them and an USB-C dual charger. I know it’s common knowledge that 3rd party batteries aren’t usually worth it (especially for professionnal work), but those ones really seem to hold up
And after 5-10 years 3rd party batteries are all done but orginals Canons are still useable.
That's 100% true. I am still using my 10 year old 6D batteries in my R6 but the third party battery killed itself after a year! 😢
I bought my 80D from a shop and got an 1800 mah Canon battery and bought the SmallRig one, got 3295 shutter count with 69% remaining (was at a NASCAR event) I don’t know if it’s the DSLR vs mirrorless but the original canon battery sucks even though it’s at full recharge capacity.
SLR eats battery much faster. For sports shooting on Canon 5dMKIII I used 2 batteries per day for 8-10K shoots. For R6 I needed 4-5 batteries for the same project
In the past I've tried a few different third party batteries and have never been impressed. I'll stick with Canon, even though they are on th pricey side, you get what you pay for.
Watson battery , ten year ago I bougth , working very well
thanks you for your video, very instrcctive
WOAH!
But it needs to "settle" or something first, obviously its not going to suddenly find the missing 45% :P but who knows.
a video record time test could be better
Thanks! That's exactly what I was wondering and pretty much what I thought!
I always buy batteries from the brand. Not worth having to change them more often.
@@ThePhotographerGuy I do think that they would be a decent alternative for a trip where you have to depend on your own power bank to keep camera batteries charged and you are (like myself) a DSLR shooter. Better to have half the power than to have no power... That type of situation is all that I can think of when these would be feasible.
Have you tried the Wasabi Power brand with USB-C or do you think all generics are pretty much the same?
I have in the past. Same results. It just isn't worth having to change batteries twice as often. For me.
Strangely, I bought a 3rd party battery charger just to have usbc, it came with 3 batteries that I thought would be trash. They've worked amazingly for the past couple months. I put two in my battery grip and they last me 7+ hours on an event day even better than my LP-E6NH's. First time having 3rd party batteries perform well.
What brand did you get? I've tried a few and they always disappoint.
I will add I always charge the batteries inside the charger they came with. So far so good!
Also important to note mAh aren't a good measurement of power (wild considering every manufacturer uses it for marketing). What you want to look at is watt hours. That's your actual unit of power since mAh are dependent on the voltage being used. So the smallrig may show a higher mAh but actually be smaller capacity than the E6NH's.
@@davidpruitt3255 for sure. what brand did you have success with?
@@ThePhotographerGuy so sorry! For some reason didn't get your notifications!
It is from a no-name brand called First Power. Not sure if it'll let me add the Amazon link but I'll try to add it.
@@davidpruitt3255 Rad. I'll try them out.
The unofficial, official slogan for camera batteries is "You get what you pay for" 😂
Are you getting the GFX 100 II?
100% and yes. Sold the 100s today and 100 ii should be here in a couple days! Can’t wait.
nice
Thanks and great test. Interesting results. Saw a video shooter get 2 hrs from the SmallRig and 2:16 from the canon, so perhaps results vary depending on what you shoot.
Interesting. It was pretty bad for photos.
Half the price, half the capacity. Interesting. I feel like my R6 drains my Canon LP-E6NH equally as fast as my Smallrig version. But I haven't tested it.
I did find that not being on airplane mode always kills my R6 battery super quickly.
2400 mW-hrs vs 2100 and still only lasted half the clicks ??? Huh. That’s some poor quality.
It's pretty common for third party batteries to perfrom poorly:(
Third-party batteries always overstate the mAh capacity so the only way is to test it on a shoot.
I've experienced that 3rd party batteries are never worth it