EOS 350d batteries

[gman]

Does anyone know of any decent 3rd party batteries for the EOS 350? (NB2-LH)

I've seen some cheap £8.99 jobbers but am a bit wary of them, perhaps a little too good to be true.

Nothing wrong with the original but I'm after a spare or two and the canon branded one is a tad pricey.

Gareth

[George]

You take your chance with unbranded camera batteries

Why don't you try one of these if you have access to mains leccy, works perfectly with the 350D.

Digital Camera 2500mA Switched Mode Power Supply : Digital Camera Power Supplies : Maplin

[gman]

Not what I'm after at the moment really. I'm going abroad in a few weeks and I'd like a spare. I'll be taking the charger so It probably won't be required, you never know though.

[brianb]

Does anyone know of any decent 3rd party batteries for the EOS 350? (NB2-LH)

I've bought several BP-511 replacements from 7dayshop.com - much, much cheaper than Canon originals, higher capacity and seem to last at least as long. The reason I've bought several is that I usually use a battery pack which takes two at once and I have two cameras which use this battery pack. I've only ever thrown one battery away because it failed, that was the original Canon BP-511A that came with my 5D.

[kevenh]

http://sterlingtek.com/calpbapafore.html

My 350D batteries came from Sterlingtek. I chose them after researching on the camera review site preview.com

[kevenh]

sorry, the camera site I used for user experience of sterlingtek is dpreview.com - I didn't spot that my predictive txt had altered what I wrote.