BG-E2 battery door

I have the BG-E2 grip on my 20D. Does your battery door pop open when you slide the switch to open it or do you have to open the door yourself?

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Open the door myself. It isn't loaded with a spring to push it open. At least mine isn't.

I have to open the door manually on the 20D. The grips on the D60 and 5D both "pop" , but not on the 20D. I never noticed this before. The BG-E2 went in to Canon repair for the recall fix, and I don't remember what it did before that.

My, official Canon one, pops open

Hmmm.... mine which does not pop open also was sent to Canon for the "recall fix". I am wondering if the opens that pop open are the ones that were produced later, not needing the "recall fix".

If yours pops open, can you tell us if it was recalled or not?

JChin wrote in post #4295069
Hmmm.... mine which does not pop open also was sent to Canon for the "recall fix". I am wondering if the opens that pop open are the ones that were produced later, not needing the "recall fix".

If yours pops open, can you tell us if it was recalled or not?

Mine wasn't but was bought from here of another user, so can't tell you it's history.

edit. Found out from serial no. it's one of the later version than the recall

So mine's a later version and does indeed pop open.

iof wrote in post #4294822
I have to open the door manually on the 20D. The grips on the D60 and 5D both "pop" , but not on the 20D. I never noticed this before. The BG-E2 went in to Canon repair for the recall fix, and I don't remember what it did before that.

My 20D and D60 grips operate pretty much the same as above, but I just noticed something else. It's very obvious from looking at the two grips side-by-side that the build quality of the BG-E2 on the 20D is inferior to the build quality of the BG-ED3 on the D60. The non-skid (for want of a better term) on the BG-ED3 goes all the way around onto the battery door and it doesn't on the BG-E2. The BG-ED3 fits the contours of the camera better, but the most noticable difference is that the BG-ED3 has two latching points on the battery door where the BG-E2 only has one.

The door pops open when I slide the switch on my BG-E2 on the 20D.

Mine pops open, and I agree with JWright on the quality comparison between the BG-ED3 and BG-E2.

Mark

When I first got one on a 20D the door would pop open a bit. But after a few months, I noticed that it didn't anymore. Never gave it a lot of concern though.

mine pops open granted its standing vertical.