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Tramm Hudson December 13th, 2009 02:41 PM

Timelapse battery grip
 
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Here's a neat new device: a battery grip with an interval timer. It can be programmed to do timelapses and holds two batteries like the normal BG-E6.

Chris Hurd December 13th, 2009 03:51 PM

What a great find, thanks Tramm -- now if only they'll do one for the 7D as well!

Ben Ruffell December 14th, 2009 12:00 PM

Check to see if it has a limit on the number of frames that can be shot. I bought a similar one online for a Digital Rebel XT, only to find out that it had a 99 frame limit. Making it useless.

Louis Maddalena December 14th, 2009 01:49 PM

can you buy it at places other than e-bay?

Christopher Lovenguth December 14th, 2009 03:11 PM

I've never seen the timer grips other then on EBay. I had been tempted to get one of these for my original 5D since until rather recently they didn't exists for 5D II. I think some un-named company is taking a generic grip and adding the timer, thus only being sold on Ebay. I have a real Canon grip for my 5D and the knock-off generic (Adorama's version) for my 5D II and the difference in the two I can't really tell except for the HUGE price difference. I'm tempted by this since I want another grip so that I can keep one permanently attached to my redrock rig so that all I have to do is drop the 5D II on to the grip when rigging up, would save me 5-10mins and the headache of a hex bolt that screws in from under the shoulder rest on my rig. Plus I use a timer in my photography sometimes for time-lapse and if this timer works the same, it would be one less piece of equipment out in the field.

Morton Molyneux December 15th, 2009 12:03 AM

Thanks for the info Tramm. I was looking to get a grip. I'll let you know how it works when it gets here.

cheers

Morton

Richard Hunter December 15th, 2009 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben Ruffell (Post 1460157)
Check to see if it has a limit on the number of frames that can be shot. I bought a similar one online for a Digital Rebel XT, only to find out that it had a 99 frame limit. Making it useless.

I had the same thing with a 500D (is that the same as the Rebel XT?) in Singapore. Luckily the dealer pointed it out to me before I paid, so I was able to get a plug-in remote/ interval timer without frame limit instead. Different from a grip obviously.

Here's a similar remote/timer that claims to work with 5D2 and 7D. Note that the price is in Singapore dollars.

Red Dot Photo (Singapore) - Products

Richard


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