Surprised with skepticism Bought and more than positive

Since I had the 50D with a "cheap" battery grip I thought to myself that you do not necessarily need an original Canon. In August, the 50D had to give way because I had bought the 7D and ordered here a 0-8-15 battery grip with two batteries to White. This has but then quickly given up the ghost. Say the rubber on the battery door broke away and finally the closure mechanism is still broken from this cover.
So then I had the opportunity to extremely low (100 with shipping from Switzerland) to come to an original Canon BG-E7 was used only once. When I got this I thought to myself: "Okay looks like the other, the weight is happening because not soooooo much and when it is mounted does not even one that's Canon - well"
But then when I tried to insert the batteries, I immediately noticed how heavy and sturdy, the battery cover is also the closure of selbiger is really high quality and snaps one A. Then it went to the vertical shutter release - a dream - as if the release button of the 7D is also easy availability. One to one, the same button, same pressure point, Hammer. The value of the materials are as easy Top quality on the camera, not a "China smell" just great. So you have to really say the increased price is more than justified. I use the camera professionally and need something solid which is not "watch" when breaks down or stops just 4 months.

For those which do not know whether you need a battery grip:

+ Higher weight (mass inertia)
(I come with an original Canon battery readily 800 pictures and still have about 35-40% remaining Battery) + Kink long battery runtime
+ A Handling the only awesome is mainly used for heavy and "long" objective simply (heavy alla 24-70mm 2.8, 70-200mm 2.8 IS or 85mm 1.4 - all about 900g)
+ Trigger and the most important functions in portrait mode available

Only minus is that the camera is right Massive proportions of her.

Conclusion: Who is not too bad for quality spend more and also want to have a high resale price - can not avoid this battery grip. Where is it Canon is also Canon plan. For me personally, nothing else comes out of the question if I'm going to buy a new camera again.

So and now a lot of fun and hopefully it puts you the BG-E7 original Canon - it can only recommend highly.

Yours sincerely

AGFotografie