Battery Grips

Hi, I have a question regarding battery grips. I have a Canon 450D & the genuine battery grip for
this will set me back $165 + $20 postage. On Ebay, I can get a non-genuine grip for $40.99 postage free!

Has anyone here had any good/bad experiences with non-genuine grips? The saving is too big to ignore.

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Michael W.

"M J Wyllie" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a question regarding battery grips. I have a Canon 450D & the
genuine battery grip for this will set me back $165 + $20 postage. On
Ebay, I can get a non-genuine grip for $40.99 postage free!

Has anyone here had any good/bad experiences with non-genuine grips? The
saving is too big to ignore.

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Michael W.

There was a fair bit of talk on the DP Review Pentax forum a while back and
it seemed that the one for the K-7 was pretty good, not as well sealed but
it worked just fine. I suspect that the one for your 450D would be pretty
much the same. At that price you could not go to far wrong.

I have a Pentax grip for my K-7 and it just works too but I am expecting
that it will work a bit better in adverse conditions because of the full
sealing..

Pete