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Looking for a ‘must have’ accessory for your Canon Digital Rebel SLR? – Adding a Canon BG-E3 battery grip (also known as a ‘vertical grip’) is a cost effective way to make your Canon Digital Rebel or (Rebel Xti) camera even more commodious to use. Fitting the Canon BG-E3 battery grip to your Digital Rebel XT/Xti is very straightforward and will take only a matter of minutes. You do have to remove the firstborn battery cover to grant the battery grip to fit into place, but once this is done, it’s plainly a matter of sliding the grip into the basi battery slot and tightening the knurled wheel to fix it. Slide in your Canon NB-2LH batteries (you may of course use just one if you prefer) and you are good to go! The initial thing you will observe when you have attached the grip is the divergence it makes to the size of the camera. It makes the Canon Digital Rebel XT/Xti look so much more prominent (a bit like a baby EOS1D you might think!). Not only does it look great, but the added size makes it more natural to handle. The Rebel is a somewhat little digital slr camera but adding the BG-E3 gives the camera a more significant feel which is particularly apparent if you are using longer telephoto and zoom lenses, the more spectacular grip making it feel a whole lot better balanced and helping to reduce camera shake when focusing. Obviously adding an extra battery will double the battery life which is outstanding if you are using the cameras power hungry features such as automati focus and effigy stabilizing lenses. With two batteries in place you may concentrate on a day’s shooting rather than having to worry when it comes to running out of power. It’s also worth noting that the Canon BGE3 battery grip comes finish with a cartridge to carry 6 AA type batteries which you may keep on hand as a spare. This is peculiarly handy if you are out and when it comes to and have no facilities to re-charge the LI-ON batteries. Another great feature of the Canon BG-E3 battery grip is the vertical shooting buttons which are incisively the same as those already on the camera. This is a in truth utile feature when you need to turn the camera a full 90 degrees to frame a picture. No longer do you have to contort your wrists to grab the shot and using the camera in portrait mode is just as straightforward as it would be in ‘landscape’ orientation. As you would suppose with a Canon camera product, the BG-E3 battery grip is very well constructed and fits the Digital Rebel XT/Xti so well that it looks like it must always have been there! – Canon have thoughtfully added a distinguished on/off switch to the BG-E3, so that you need never run the risk of in an unintentional manner triggering the vertical grip shutter controls unless you want to. Tripod users must have no difficultnesses after fitting the BG-E3 to their Rebel. The battery grip comes finish with a threaded metal insert in the base, replicating the one on the camera body so that you may carry on to use your tripod normally. If you are looking for a quality accessory that complements the already very fine Canon Rebel series, you won’t be disappointed with the BG-E3 battery grip. In fact, once you’ve fitted one to your XT/Xti you might find that you never want to take it off!
Most helpful customer reviews 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Make sure you attach your camera strap to the bottom of the grip instead of leaving it on the right side of the camera. It stays out of your way when attached to the bottom of the grip PLUS it lets the camera hang lens down which is a nice thing. 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. It comes with 2 magazines. One of which holds 2 LP-E6 batteries and the other holding 4 AA batteries. Also comes with a little pouch for holding the other magazine while the other is in use! I’m glad I purchased it. And I hope this review helps you decide! 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. I seriously considered purchasing a 3rd party battery grip, but I kept coming across so many bad reviews (“doesn’t function properly,” “smells bad,” “rubber is peeling off,” etc.) When I first inserted the batteries into the BG-E9′s tray and attached the grip to my 60D, one of the batteries was not recognized. After removing the batteries and reinserting them, the camera recognized both batteries. The extra tray for 6-AA batteries is a nice feature. However, I read that the 6-AA tray is to be used under emergency situations, not on a regular basis. There is even a nice bag for whichever tray you are not currently using. Supposedly you can get up to 800 shots per battery (when not using “Live View”). You get what you pay for. Canon’s stuff isn’t cheap, but it works great! BOOK RECOMMENDATION UPDATE – 11/06/2011 |
EOS 60D Battery Grip