Customer Reviews

Canon BP-808 Lithium Ion Battery for FS Camcorders (Retail Packaging)

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I own canon professional SLR's so I know from past experience Canon's policies about third party products that work with their stuff; they fight it tooth and nail and try to keep a monopoly on everything. My SLR's use the venerable 512 battery packs, fortunately somebody was able to reverse engineer those and sell them reasonably instead of the 80 plus dollars Canon wants for an original pack. Don't get me wrong, Canon makes good stuff they just have a really inflated view of what folks are able to pay for things if you ask me. I love my FS100 it's a great camcorder, well worth what I paid for it but the battery packages are outrageously priced for it. Right after we bought the camcorder bestbuy started offering an outfit that included a second battery for what amounts to a bargain...unfortunately I missed out on that. You can find japanese versions of these batteries on ebay but they DO NOT HAVE THE ELECTRONICS in the pack so the camera cannot detect charge and they will not charge on the camera...so far only canon has this battery with all the electronics in it for sale. I bought a third party charger, one of the new batteries I bought (I got two) will not charge on that unit but it does on the camera. Most of us never shoot more than two hours of video anyway(which is battery life in middle quality mode, maybe be shorter in highest quality mode). I feel these batteries are way overpriced and canon needs to stop being quite so stuffy about licensing tech specs so others can sell stuff too...but they do work as advertised and do last as long as they are supposed to in everyday use.

I recently purchased a Canon FS 200 which came with a Canon BP-808 battery. At the time of purchase, I also bought two after-market spare batteries (labled "CTA Canon DB-BP808) with charger and two 16 GB flash cards. The Canon battery communicates with the camera so you always know how much recording time you have left. That's a useful feature but not an absolutely necessary one. The real problem with the aftermarket batteries is that, every time I turn the camera on, I get a pop-up message telling me that the camera cannot communicate with the battery and asking if I want to use the battery that is in the camera. That means, every time I turn on the camera, I have to push the toggle right (to choose "yes") and depress the toggle switch to select "yes" - two extra steps to complicate what should be a simple start up. Especially cumbersome when wearing gloves. I recommend the real Canon batteries.

This product was received and operated as expected. It is a compliment for the Canon FS11. The camcorder will operate approximately 90 minutes on a full charge. Having a spare is almost manditory. I have been able to continue recording while one battery charges.

This is the original Canon replacement ION Battery (BP-808). The price was approximately 37% less than Canon's Suggested retail price. It will display all the information the original battery does, and it will charge in the Camcorder.

Works just like the OEM battery that came with my Vixia HG20 HD cam. Having the ability for the camera to "talk" to the battery to provide battery information and capacity status is important for me. However, this is pricier than the basic non-OEM battery.

The only thing I did not like about the BP-808 is that it is thinner than the OEM BP-807 so when installed on the cam, it is not flushed with the cam body and doesn't look as slick.

This seller is awesome. I bought a battery when it came it was DOA. They had me send it back to them and they sent out a new battery. The new battery works great and I couldn't be more happy with the service I received from this buyer. Not to mention my battery works great!!!

What can I say.....you don't want to get caught without enough juice. So, you have to have the spare battery.....be sure to alternate.

Just like the original in my FS100, and even came with a plastic snap-cover. It's great to have a spare battery and external charger.

I purchased this battery almost 3 months ago to use as a spare. I attempted to charge it last night in preparation for a trip I'm taking tomorrow. The battery doesn't charge. Period. I guess that's why this battery is half the price of an "official" Canon battery. I got what I paid for. The seller -- not Amazon -- says that batteries aren't covered by their return policy. I submitted a claim anyway; perhaps Amazon will come to my rescue.

PROS
Works just fine in a VIXIA HF M30.
As far as I can tell, this is the authentic CANON BP-808.
Has "Canon" printed on the battery, package and a little holographic "Canon" sticker.

CONS
None I can find, other than the short 90-minute battery life compared to the BP-819 and BP-827. (But its much cheaper than the authentic versions of those batteries)

I bought this battery after having problems with a generic battery not turning on reliably. I was suspicious of this being the true authentic BP-808 because it was only $25 when I bought it, and seems to be at least $45 everywhere else. But as far as I can tell its the real thing.