LP-E6 battery life

About 10% shot in liveview, about a minute of video, popup flash used on about 1% of the shots.

Shooting motorsport with my 7D :-



No complaints here either ;-)

I've heard of much better than this too!

Last Saturday I got 1430 shots on my gripped 7D and the charge on both batteries only fell from 100 to 79%. So presumably that would have been 58% on a single battery. Which works out to about 3234 shots on a single battery to get down to 5%. I did minimal chimping and only a handful of Live View. I used five lenses, but only one had IS and the vast majority of the images were manually focused at infinity, with the bulk of them 3-shot brackets for HDR. On the other hand, there have been times when I've gotten only 300 to 400 shots before both batteries reached about 60%. That was when shooting almost exclusively in Live View. By the way, I've had the 7D for about a year and a half and have had many shoots well in excess of 1000 shots and I've never even reached 50%.

schmegg said:

Shooting motorsport with my 7D :-

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No complaints here either ;-)

I've heard of much better than this too!

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Hey, schmegg . I see your battery "health" has fallen to two bars too. I only have two batteries and they're both used simultaneously in the grip. Recently (or at least I just noticed) they both fell from three bars to two. That's with 18 months use. How long did it take for yours to fall to two? I know the manual says don't sweat it unless it drops to one bar, but it's got me thinking , not concerned , still ... :|

I've been thinking lately of supplementing the pair I have with a couple more. Been checking Amazon and there seem to have been a spate of fake Canon branded LP-E6 batteries on the market. Ironically, that has made me consider, for the first time, buying some genuine knock-offs instead of full-priced (possibly fake) Canon.

This is interesting, coming from 20D I've not replaced my single battery that I had more than 6 years back and it is still working just fine. I'll have to keep eye on my 60D to see how well battery holds on this new cameras. Keeping in mind that newer camera has more powerful components + larger LCDs to power which definately should consume more battery compared to 20D.
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shooting in low light,live view, IS is running all the time in video mode.

Even shooting RAW all the time (IQ settings can make quite a difference in number of shots) I'm getting excellent results as well. At a recent all-day photo shoot, 600+ shots barely made a dent in the battery life. Am using Canon battery, BTW.

Nick
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Severian The Lame said:

schmegg said:

Shooting motorsport with my 7D :-

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No complaints here either ;-)

I've heard of much better than this too!

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Hey, schmegg . I see your battery "health" has fallen to two bars too. I only have two batteries and they're both used simultaneously in the grip. Recently (or at least I just noticed) they both fell from three bars to two. That's with 18 months use. How long did it take for yours to fall to two? I know the manual says don't sweat it unless it drops to one bar, but it's got me thinking , not concerned , still ... :|

I've been thinking lately of supplementing the pair I have with a couple more. Been checking Amazon and there seem to have been a spate of fake Canon branded LP-E6 batteries on the market. Ironically, that has made me consider, for the first time, buying some genuine knock-offs instead of full-priced (possibly fake) Canon.

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You may want to check Sterlingtek. They recently came out with an LP-E6 battery. I have not used this battery from them but have always gotten great performance from their other batteries.
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No complaints here either. I usually get get around 1200 out of the battery before I decide to charge it. It is often around 20% to 30% before I recharge. Having only one battery I don't want to run out of the house and realize the battery is almost dead.

Severian The Lame said:

Hey, schmegg . I see your battery "health" has fallen to two bars too. I only have two batteries and they're both used simultaneously in the grip. Recently (or at least I just noticed) they both fell from three bars to two. That's with 18 months use. How long did it take for yours to fall to two? I know the manual says don't sweat it unless it drops to one bar, but it's got me thinking , not concerned , still ... :|

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Yo! Same for me here - the batteries (I have two) are about 18 months old and have only recently dropped to two bars. (I don't use a grip though - so they have been alternated in use).

Like you, I'm not concerned. I keep thinking of car fuel gauges - they often don't seem to be linear in their behaviour - perhaps these batteries may not be either.

I won't be all that thrilled if they drop another bar within 6 months though!

I'll be happy enough if they give me three or more years of use - I shoot around 15K frames a year - so 25K frames per battery would be acceptable to me.

Right now my batteries get recharged when they hit 60 % . Still learning / setting up camera and use more juice just turning on , scrolling menus , setting turning off and reading more in books or posts .
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1st it's a hobby
7D gripped XTI gripped
Canon - efs 10-22 , 17-55 , ef 18-55 IS
EF 28-90 , 28 @ 2.8 , 50 @1.8 , 28-135 IS
L's 35-350 , 70-200 MK II IS
Quantaray lens 70-300 macro
Sigma 135 - 400
2X III , Life Size converter
KSM filters for all
kenko auto tubes , EF 25

Well i'm a new 60D owner and after 900 shots it's still has 39% so i think i can get more 3-400 shots out from this battery
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Frank