Off Brand Canon LP-E6NH Camera Batteries

[Hotdog321]

I am trying to find some off brand LP-E6NH camera batteries for my R6 MKII since there is a huge shortage or OEM batteries at the moment, plus their high cost. I have done some research and have found articles saying that Hahnel is an ok brand, but that's not saving much on cost, though they are available at my local store. By the way, I live in the GTA in Ontario.

 

I am wondering if anyone has experience with the Neewer LP-E6NH batteries available on Amazon. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[Bombastinator]

32 minutes ago, Hotdog321 said:

I am trying to find some off brand LP-E6NH camera batteries for my R6 MKII since there is a huge shortage or OEM batteries at the moment, plus their high cost. I have done some research and have found articles saying that Hahnel is an ok brand, but that's not saving much on cost, though they are available at my local store. By the way, I live in the GTA in Ontario.

 

I am wondering if anyone has experience with the Neewer LP-E6NH batteries available on Amazon. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I personally would pay the money.  Off brand batteries are often counterfeit, and dangerous if they are not outright fakes.  (A container of sand isn’t dangerous but it doesn’t work either) That said, any battery has a full voltage, a discharged voltage, an number of mAH it generally contains, and a voltage range it runs through. Find those out and you can power a battery device of any one of several sources.  Most of that information will be printed on the battery except for the starting and discharged voltage.  Instead there is an “average” voltage.  For 18650s it’s 3.7v but they start at 4.1 or 4.2 and go to whatever the object cuts off at.  Usually 2.5 or 3v

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

36 minutes ago, Hotdog321 said:

I am trying to find some off brand LP-E6NH camera batteries for my R6 MKII since there is a huge shortage or OEM batteries at the moment, plus their high cost. I have done some research and have found articles saying that Hahnel is an ok brand, but that's not saving much on cost, though they are available at my local store. By the way, I live in the GTA in Ontario.

 

I am wondering if anyone has experience with the Neewer LP-E6NH batteries available on Amazon. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I would wait it out unless you are absolutely dying for replacement battery right now. Third-party batteries for whatever reason always tend to cheap out one way or another despite the consistent claims of longer battery life/capacity, etc. 

 

Reading online reviews and sure enough there are plenty of people who experience perfect performance for maybe the first year but after that, things go down hill quickly. I for example have cheap knockoff batteries for my Canon but one has since began to expand after a year or two and for the others, the battery percentage can always go from 100% - 0% very suddenly. 

 

Long story short, they'll work but longevity is always the achilles heel to third-party batteries. You'll almost always experience faster degradation and just odd issues down the road with non-genuine parts in the camera space. 

[CommanderAlex]

You're already spending $2,500 on a camera body to use third party batteries that may not last as long, possibly damage the circuitry inside, and have weird anomalies. 

 

To me, it's worth the extra price and Canon is known to fuss about third party batteries refusing to work in the body. I had that happen once with a LP-E6N in my camera and the camera recognized it as not being Canon authentic and shut down to prevent damage. 

 

These LP-E6NH batteries are hard to come by and I refuse to pay $10 more than the MSRP if Amazon adjusts the price when in stock (I've been lucky to not and purchase the limit).