Customer Reviews

Digipower BP-CN4L Replacement Li-Ion Battery for Canon NB-4L for use with Canon SD1400IS, SD940IS, SD960IS and other Select Canon Digital Cameras

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I bought this battery as a spare for my Cannon Power Shot SD1100IS. To be honest the life on this kind of battery in my Cannon seems to last forever so I probably didn't need it. Either way it is a good purchase. I would recommend buying this battery rather than the camera brand as it is essentially the same thing but less expensive! You can also charge this battery in the Cannon charger without a hitch. I have this for 6 months and so far no issues.

I bought this battery as a backup battery for my Canon Powershot SD200. Now, I don't even use the Canon battery since the Digipower battery and Charger are all that I need.

It has a longer time span than than original Canon NB-4L battery! The Canon battery seemed to die shortly within 30 minutes to 1 hour, where as this battery will last for days or weeks, depending how much it is used. Today is 10/11/06 and the last time I charged it was on 8/25/06. I have used it almost everyday for a whole week and the battery will still be charged at the end of the week.

I love this battery! It has been one of my best purchases.

I also purchased the Digipower Travel charger (TC-500C) and use it to recharge the Digipower battery. I no longer use the Canon battery. The Digipower charger is more bulky than the Canon charger, but it works well and it comes with other adaptors for charging other types of batteries. The Digipower charger plugs directly into the wall (No cords) just like the Canon charger. I would not recommend using the Canon charger to recharge the Digipower battery. The Digipower battery takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes to charge using the Digipower charger.

I hope if you buy one of these batteries, then you will be as satisfied as I am.

I purchased two of these batteries - one about a month ago and another two weeks later. I chose "Digipower" as a replacement battery for my Canon camera because of its high rating for a knock-off battery - many of the replacement batteries for Canon cameras are rated at Amazon to be totally erratic or non-functional. Digipower gets good ratings across the board at Amazon. The first one was purchased directly from Amazon, arrived quickly and works quite well. The second battery was purchased as a "Digipower" from "Accessory Genie" (an Amazon seller). What I got was a knock off battery (not Digipower). I guess that would be a knock off of a knock off.

I do not like Amazon sellers that just send you something "similar" rather than the exact item you purchased. When buying directly from Amazon - you get stellar sales performance - what you buy is what you get almost 100% of the time. I have shopped extensively here for over 12 years - and Amazon always comes through. I have had this happen with other inexpensive items through Amazon sellers - you get whatever they want to send you which isn't always what is actually advertised. It's close, but not the same. Sometimes it's not even close. Of course there is no way to complain to Amazon - just to the seller. You waste lots of time getting your few dollars back. I suspect that most people just let it get by.

I posted a somewhat negative review for Accessory Genie for my purchase as I wasn't going to waste my time and money returning an inexpensive battery and just call it a loss. I wanted to take a moment to add my experience to the record. I have since received two phone calls and an e-mail from Accessory Genie in the space of two days. I find this intrusive and annoying. I did not ask to be contacted, and I feel that this behavior is an invasion of my privacy. My phone number and e-mail address is for Amazon billing, and I do not appreciate them being given to third parties who seem to have no concept of proper use of this information. The ratings process is, after all, supposed to rate the seller's performance - not serve as a customer service venue. If Accessory Genie had just left me alone - then I would not seen fit to write this review. Most notable is that Accessory Genie (at the time of writing this) does not list as a seller of Digipower BP-CN4L batteries any longer. I must only suspect that they never sold them in the first place.

The bottom line is that if you want something and want to be sure of what you are getting, buy it from Amazon - they are the best in the business of retail. If you want the "e-bay like" risk of ordering and wondering what you will receive - then order from a 3rd party seller.

Holds a charge longer than the battery that came with my Canon1000IS and is available at a great price (of course they lower it after I've bought one).

I purchased this to supplement the seemingly weak OEM battery in my digital camera. I just wanted to have a back-up that could be charged and ready to go. I've found that this battery has a much better service life between charges than the factory battery. It charges just fine in the OEM charger and works great in the camera. I definitely recommend this product for this application.

This battery seems to perform the same as the official Cannon battery that came with the camera. recharged it several times and it's great. Length of battery usage is the same, charge time is the same. I've had replacement batteries for other Cannon cameras before and I kept going back to the Cannon battery even though they're more expensive. This one seems fine and no reason to pay the extra $$$.

I bought this battery as a spare for my Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS. It works just fine - no problems so far.

I decided to get an additional battery, because when taking videos with a camera it can use more power than just taking pictures. I have in the past run out of battery power and wish I had an extra battery or remembered to bring the battery-charger to recharge the one I ran down. I highly recommend keeping an extra battery with you that is already fully charged, and bringing with you the charger to charge-up a dead battery.

WARNING! I ordered a Digipower, but I received a Generic "Premium TECH NB-4L" Battery from Hi-Tech Savings.. It is 900mAh though and lasts longer than the original battery. I tested it and my result were; The low battery icon doesn't pop up until around 385 pictures and lasts longer than 400+ shots with the flash on. My canon SD450 was set to Auto & the highest image settings & flash on.. Don't order from them if you want a REAL Digipower. I hope this helps.

This item came up for me in Amazon as if it were a replacement battery for the PowerShot A3100 camera. However, that camera takes the NB-8L battery and not the NB-4L. The two batteries are almost exactly the same size but not quite, and the 4L will not fit properly in the camera or the charger made for the 8L.