Grip for 40D

[BDDigitalImages]

Anyone tried this grip? http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-Vertical-Grip-for-Canon-20D-30D-40D-BG-E2-New_W0QQitemZ200180164194QQihZ010QQcategoryZ50512Q QtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

[sOid]

The outcome of such a topic is always the same: get the original one ;)
Way better quality :)

I'm very happy with my grip for the 400D/XTi

[pete.rush]

Have had no problems with the canon grip for my 20D, and at the time got a good deal on canon grip so not a great deal of difference in price

Peter

[jgtuk]

The grip the op posted is about £40.00 - Where did you get your Canon grip for the 20D from for near that price?
Any one tried this particular grip and care to share.
James.

[pete.rush]

The grip the op posted is about £40.00 - Where did you get your Canon grip for the 20D from for near that price?
Any one tried this particular grip and care to share.
James.

My apologies, I should have said at the time I bought mine the third party grips were going for £80 and I got mine canon grip for £100 when they were going for £150 in the shops. HK supplies looks like it got a good rep, and we can never complete with HongKong prices in the UK, I just when with peace of mind and bought brand with warranty and somewhere easy to send it back to if anything went wrong.

Peter

[JWright]

Something everyone overlooks with these third party grips for the 20, 30, 40D series is that they load their batteries from the end (as pictured in the e-bay post) rather than from the back as does the Canon BG-E2 grip.

All the manufacturers that make L brackets for these cameras have manufactured them based on the fact the Canon grip loads batteries from the back. Using the third-party grips with an L bracket is going to mean removing the bracket each time the batteries are changed. After a while this constant on-and-off is going to ruin the threads in the grip's tripod socket.