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I want to buy a battery for my a6000 but I find 99$ a rip off by Sony for 1020 mah battery.

I read found this on ebay:


Which Garry Friedman (http://www.friedmanarchives.com/alpha6000/) recommend. He says that these batteries give 85% of NP Fw50. So getting 2 sounds like a good deal.

Or should I stick with the Sony battery?
 
This is the set I've been using the last couple of years.


Wasabi Power Battery (2-Pack) and Charger for Sony NP-FW50

This Wasabi Power Battery and Charger Kit includes:
  • 1) Two (2) Wasabi Power FW50 batteries; each with 7.2V, 1300 mAh, Japanese cells
  • 2) One (1) Wasabi Power FW50 Mini Rapid A/C Charger with fold-out plug
  • 3) European plug and car adapter
  • 4) 3-year manufacturer warranty
Thank you
Russell
 
Russell Evans said:
This is the set I've been using the last couple of years.

http://www.amazon.com/Wasabi-Power-SLT-A55V-Cyber-shot-DSC-RX10/dp/B0049WBZEK

Wasabi Power Battery (2-Pack) and Charger for Sony NP-FW50

This Wasabi Power Battery and Charger Kit includes:
  • 1) Two (2) Wasabi Power FW50 batteries; each with 7.2V, 1300 mAh, Japanese cells
  • 2) One (1) Wasabi Power FW50 Mini Rapid A/C Charger with fold-out plug
  • 3) European plug and car adapter
  • 4) 3-year manufacturer warranty
Thank you
Russell
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It's good?
 
I've used the Wasabis in my Canon 7D and can't tell the difference from the Canon battery. I wonder if the wasabi charger will charge the Sony battery.
 
I am using the Wasabi batteries and charger from Amazon. I can't tell the difference in capacity from the Sony battery. The external charger is a plus, as I no longer need to give up using the camera while charging the battery.

I bought the two batteries + charger for ~$30.

The Sony battery claims 1020 mAh capacity, The Wasabi battery claims 1300mAh capacity, supposedly 30% more capacity. Whatever.. When a battery gets low, I pop in another and keep shooting.
 
caplanner said:
I recently bought this and then one battery from the same page on Amazon. I will buy a second now that it seems to work very well. I keep the Sony battery in the camera and the Vivitar as a backup. The charger will charge the Sony battery with no problems.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EUHK4Z0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Thanks, caplanner, that's good to hear. Never used the wasabi charger for my Canon batteries since I have a charger for those. Think I'm getting ready to order the a6000 so that's good news.
 
jerry1 said:
caplanner said:
I recently bought this and then one battery from the same page on Amazon. I will buy a second now that it seems to work very well. I keep the Sony battery in the camera and the Vivitar as a backup. The charger will charge the Sony battery with no problems.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EUHK4Z0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Thanks, caplanner, that's good to hear. Never used the wasabi charger for my Canon batteries since I have a charger for those. Think I'm getting ready to order the a6000 so that's good news.
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Jerry:

I use the Wasabi charger for all of my A6000 batteries, Sony & Wasabi. No differences.

I do the same for my Panasonic camera batteries also. Again, no differences between brand name & third party ones.
 
Most people use third party batteries with no issues what so ever, but they seem more prone to sometimes failing. There was a huge thread a few months ago started by Mel, in which a few users reported swollen batteries. Personally, I've considered third party batteries, but I decided not to risk it and did not buy any.
 
Oddly enough, the Sony Center in Managua, Nicaragua has $17 Sony batteries which appear to be genuine. They're old model gray stripe and came in Sony blister packs. Next time I'm in Managua, I'll pick up a few more if they're still there. The all black has an hologram inset that shows different texts at different angles (Sony in all caps at one angle, L and R at two other angles, and what appears to be a serial or model number on two lines at another), and is made in China. The old style gray stripe has a label that says made in Japan and is twice as heavy. New model is engraved on the top. Gray stripe is imprinted.

If anyone else is in a Latin American or Asian city, check to see what prices Sony Centers there are asking for the made in Japan older model.
 
jerry1 said:
I've used the Wasabis in my Canon 7D and can't tell the difference from the Canon battery. I wonder if the wasabi charger will charge the Sony battery.
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If you are asking about the Wasibi charger that comes in the Amazon listing for Sony, yes, it charges the batteries.

Thank you
Russell
 
Stay away from those Vivitar batteries. I bought same and they felt weird, very different weights. I broke open the plastic shells and they had different kinds of cells. One battery had round cylinder shaped cells, the other had flat ones kind of like a cell battery. That was it for me.

Now I only buy Sony or Watson. Watson is like the store brand for B and H. Never had any trouble with them and the build waulity has been excellent with every battery I've bought. I have at least a dozen.

caplanner said:
I recently bought this and then one battery from the same page on Amazon. I will buy a second now that it seems to work very well. I keep the Sony battery in the camera and the Vivitar as a backup. The charger will charge the Sony battery with no problems.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EUHK4Z0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Thanks, Jerry045 and Russell. I didn't want to spring for a Sony charger so the Wasabi batteries and charger will be the way to go.
 
Wasabi for the win. I have used them for years in multiple GoPro action cams, never had a problem.
 
Be careful of the charger you buy, it should be the intelligent one that stops pumping full current when the battery is fully charged.
 
Hello All, I get very good life with the Wasabi batteries for my Canon 6D and about 75% of my Sony NP50 for my Sony A7r and for the cost and you get 2 batteries and a nice charger but I have noticed that the Sony charger charges them longer like the Wasabi stops too early so when using that charger I leave it charging for 30 more minuets and think it get the correct charge.

Also when I see the same battery size say for the SONY system and see someone saying that there battery is 1500 mah or 1950 mah I don't think that's accurate because I don't think China can put more current into a battery than a made in Japan Sony or now Sony made in China.

Just my 2 cents.

Christopher
 
uzman1243 said:
I want to buy a battery for my a6000 but I find 99$ a rip off by Sony for 1020 mah battery.

I read found this on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/221...2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=107&chn=ps

Which Garry Friedman (http://www.friedmanarchives.com/alpha6000/) recommend. He says that these batteries give 85% of NP Fw50. So getting 2 sounds like a good deal.

Or should I stick with the Sony battery?
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I bought myself the DSTE NP FW50 Battery on Ebay a couple of months ago.
It's 1950mAh, so it lasts a lot longer, and I could already tell from the first use.

Pretty cheap at $10.99
You can check it out here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DSTE-NP-FW50-Battery-For-Sony-Alpha-NEX-3-NEX-3N-NEX-5-NEX-5R-/161385507159?pt=Batteries_Chargers&hash=item2593536957
 
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I originally had 2 Sony batteries and 2 Wasabi ones. After 2 years i noted that my Wasabis were hard to remove from the Nex battery compartment: they had swollen and so I recycled them, bought two new Sony ones and am still traveling with 4 usable flat batteries.

Re chargers: the original Wasabi one made a pop sound in Kuala lumpur when I plugged it in one morning to prepare my batteries and give them full charge. It had a rotating power plug and it was the only charger I had with me, but "POP" it went and did no longer work; I never thought it might bust, but it did.

So off to the Mall I went and bought a Sony charger (my other one was safely at home, why take two? ...) and all was and now is well. Luckily this all happened the day before I was to travel into non-tech, non-mall, non Sony Store native lands in SE Asia such as inner Borneo ...

There is a difference of what will hold up in the jungle and what will let you down. What does/did that camera of yours cost again? How much does a battery cost in comparison?

My angel saved me from disaster in June. Do you have an angel?
 
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