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15 Aug, 2019
Original IS best, but somewhat overpriced.
I’ve learned through experience that Third Party batteries, even from reliable brand names like Duracell, don’t perform as reliably as the genuine camera original equipment manufacturer-branded batteries (OEM).
Not just in terms of never seeming to hold a charge as long as OEM, despite often claiming to hold more charge, but particularly in terms of very noticeably losing performance after a few charge/recharge cycles.
If it wasn’t for that second problem then batteries which are often a third of the price of OEM (or less), but which need recharging far more frequently, would be an acceptable trade-off.
But what I find happens is that even with the top-name Third Party suppliers such as Duracell, Hähnel, Uniross, and many others is that they last much less than a third as long before their performance becomes totally unacceptable.
So once you’ve wasted money on a few of the non-OEM batteries you could have used that money to buy genuine-OEM which last MUCH longer.
Also there’s all that guff to consider about non-coded, part-coded and fully-decoded batteries: in short anything other than the last ones won’t usually work in the OEM battery charger, nor will the battery charge meter work in the camera.
So I always buy the genuine-OEM items. But the price still stinks. The camera manufacturer knows they have a monopoly on supply and so charge as much as they can get away with.
Usually that would result in me rating this battery as just 3 stars, but I bought wisely by purchasing lightly-used secondhand OEM batteries with a guarantee. Still overpriced, but it meant I got two for £90 instead of about £140-£150.
If brand-new OEM rechargeables were priced at, say, 150% of the typical price of Third Party/off-brand models then they’d be very good value and would merit 5 stars.
14 Jul, 2011
Overpriced, cheaply made, deceptive, truly awful.
Don't fall for the hype and the flashy box. This camera is a cheap and appallingly nasty piece of poor-quality tat which various con-artists try to shift for stupidly high prices.
It is not a plastic version of an expensive camera of any kind, it's just a cheaply-made plastic camera trying to rip off the looks of a 35mm SLR and trying to fool the ignorant into thinking they're getting a well-respected major name brand which sounds very similar.
The box makes a raft of ridiculous claims for non existent features. For example, "Optical lens" Duh. They all are. "Focus free". True, the lens is a single element fixed focus model like all cheap toy cameras.
If you like the current craze for cheap plastic toy cameras with nasty plastic lenses, such as Holgas and Lomo models then by all means go for it. But if you pay more than £5 for it then you've been ripped off.
22 Apr, 2020
The original and best gasket.
These are a consumable item as they harden with usage to the point where they no longer seal, so I always keep at least one in reserve. Don’t put these through a dishwasher: that hardens them very quickly indeed.
As they’re consumables, I can’t claim that they’re durable. But I use my pressure cooker most days and tend to find that the seal needs changing about two or three times a year. So they’re acceptably durable.
They’re not especially expensive, and non-genuine alternatives will only be worth considering when Prestige cease manufacturing these at some point far into the future.