It is no surprise that professional photographers and snap-happy amateurs require the highest quality, longest life batteries possible. If you are an aficionado of the hobby, or it happens to be your profession – that’s exactly what you get with the Canon LP-E6 Battery Pack.
This battery pack is a must have for heavy shooters. For those familiar with Canon’s very popular EOS 5D Mark II and its long-running BP-511 series battery, on the surface this battery pack may look the same – but the new lithium-ion LP-E6 battery pack is approximately 30% more powerful than the previous BP-511A – with 1800 milliamp-hours capacity, vs. 1390 mAh for the previous-generation BP-511A.
Far from just a more powerful power supply, this new battery teams up with the EOS 5D Mark II camera in new ways to give photographers a precise outlook on remaining strength of a battery, as well as managing multiple batteries.
It’s a fact that today’s digital SLR users almost always have at least one, and often multiple, spare battery packs for their cameras. But with more than one battery pack, it can sometimes be hard to keep track of whether all batteries are being used fairly evenly (in other words, that one or more aren’t languishing at the bottom of your camera bag), and to have an idea of when you’ve last charged each one.
Using the battery pack with the Mark II, you can actually “register” or memorize each LP-E6 battery pack you own, and keep track of up to six separate batteries right on the camera’s LCD screen. Each LP-E6 battery pack has a microchip with a unique, 8-character serial number. You don’t see this number on the outside of the battery, as it is embedded in the battery’s information source but once the battery pack is installed in the camera, you can register it using a menu command.
The Battery Information displays the information which is extremely useful to the working photographer on location. At a glance, he or she can immediately tell how much remaining battery power is available, and furthermore get information to assist in managing this and other LP-E6 battery packs:
1. Charge Remaining: Special circuits and a memory chip in the battery communicate the precise percentage of charge remaining in the battery, in 1% increments.
2. Shots Taken: At a glance, you can see how many times the shutter has fired using this particular battery, since it was last charged-up. (Please note – this display will never show the total number of times the camera’s shutter itself has fired; it only displays the number of shots taken on this battery charge).
3. Battery Performance: It’s a fact that rechargeable batteries have a finite number of charge-discharge-charge cycles they can go through, after which they can begin to lose their ability to hold a charge. While the LP-E6 should allow photographers hundreds of charge-discharge cycles, it’s useful for the working photographer to know whether a battery pack is nearing the end of its useful life after several years of use. The Battery Performance indicator does just that, with a 4-stage icon.
With 30% added life over previous versions and ‘smart’ features that separate it from the competition, it is not hard to recommend the Canon LP-E6 Battery Pack, available from WarehouseExpress.com and other fine retailers.
SOURCE: WarehouseExpress.com | Canon
