Customer Reviews

Panasonic CGA-S007A/1B Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery for Panasonic DMC-TZ1-Series Digital Cameras (Retail Packaging)

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Generalizations are suspect. But I'm just fine with this one: when buying rechargeable gadget batteries, I will get a better long-term result from the original manufacturer's product - or a major well-known battery brand - than from a "no name" battery. "No name" batteries generally cost less than the alternatives. But in this case you get what you pay for in the long run.

My generalizing comes from experience. A few years ago I bought two "no name" rechargeable batteries to supplement the OEM battery for a Nikon digital camera (Coolpix 7900). The "no names" performed OK at first. But over a couple of years they aged much faster than the OEM battery. Finally one of them couldn't hold a charge at all and the other one held its charge about half as long as the OEM battery.

(Rechargeable batteries lose their ability to hold a charge after a certain amount of use - i.e., a number of "charge-and-discharge" cycles. The Nikon OEM battery didn't "age" as fast as the no-names did over two years of heavy use, although it too finally lost a lot of its ability to hold a charge.)

That's why I ordered two of these Panasonic brand batteries to use in my Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3K 7.2MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) - in addition to the OEM battery that came with it. I'm happy so far with the performance of all the batteries. Because they are all Panasonics I don't really know by now which is the original and which are the supplementals.

Maybe buying *two* extra batteries for my Lumix was a little more than needed, but once burned, twice shy. I don't want to be out all day shooting a lot of pictures, and get stuck with a dead battery and no replacement. That happened to me on a foreign vacation - and I vowed, never again.

As a back-up battery for my new Panasonic Lumix camera purchased through Amazon, it works as well as the original, which is excellent. Charges are relatively quick, and the battery is easy to carry. I highly recommend it!

I purchased this product for my mother as a Christmas gift, since we recently found her a new digital camera (the Panasonic Lumix) that used only the rechargable batteries. She is very happy with the battery and now doesn't have to wait to charge it when it runs out. The price was also a plus.

I already had one battery for my Panasonic Lumix camera and wanted a backup battery for travel. For three months I searched online for a company that had the battery for a good price. I ordered it three times from three different companies, only to be told after weeks of waiting that they didn't have the battery in stock and had no idea when they would get them again.

Not only did Amazon have it in stock, it was a pretty good price for it. It shipped right away and was packaged in its factory packaging - brand new. It came quickly and worked perfectly. A+

I ordered this battery on Jan.,21, 09 and I received it today. Unfortunately the Amazon advertisement is misleading because I received a different product that one depicted and ordered by myself. It has only 970mAh instead of 1000mAh as the original battery and as it is advertised by Amazon. I am very disapointed for the misleading and of course of the product.
I would not advise to buy this battery, because it is not original.

I am so pleased with this battery, I hated the double a batteries, there always low and this battery holds a charge so long, I bought an extra one just to be safe but have never had to use it.

The battery life is decent. I can get about 200 shots out of the battery before I need to change it. Not nearly as long lasting as my Casio Exlim, but the camera is better.

I've had this battery for about three months; got it as a backup for our Lumix TZ5 before we went on vacation to Colorado and Utah. Read too many negative reviews of the knock off batteries, so I went OEM.

These batteries perform as advertised. During vacation, lasted about a day and a half before recharging, taking tons of photos, occasional short video, lots of zooming in and out, flash, reviewing pictures, etc. Since then, continues to work great. Long lasting charge.

I am very pleased with my purchase for my new digital camera. I was happy to find the Panasonic Lumix brand battery, it works great, the charge time is amazing. I would recommend spending a little more money on a brand name battery. it is well worth the money.

Not much to say, it's a battery. I picked up a spare for my Lumix camera, it has very good life. I was able to take hundreds of pictures (400+) before it ran out of go juice.