LuigiHodges said:With any luck it'll arrive before my camera comes back from repairs.
oscaroo said:However, I tried to put it into my friend's 60d. The tripod hole matches and the battery hole matches. But when I push it in, the "battery" sticking out bit doesn't quite click into position in the battery bay of the camera body.
Marsu42 said:So does the 6d grip also work on the 60d (though not optimally) or does the grip fail to get contact to the camera?
oscaroo said:I have never used a battery grip before and thus don't know how much is acceptable force. My 6d is still out for repairs so all I have is a grip
stephan said:The rubber on my 60D meike grip smellled like plastic-softeners - it was very unpleasant holding the camera up to my face so I just removed the rubber from the grip. In the OPs pictures the rubber looks just like my smelly one.
Afaik there's no connection between "smelly" and "harmful", all plastics contain softeners and emit them over time ("aging"). When I studied chemistry I had to learn that the most cancerogenous, mutagenic and toxic chemicals aren't the green liquids or smelly gases :-o ... if the Meike grips smell that imho only means that the product is very new, so no harm in putting it outside until the smell gets better.Stig said:smelly plastic softeners... as of toxic, cancerogenous, infertility causing phthalates?stephan said:The rubber on my 60D meike grip smellled like plastic-softeners - it was very unpleasant holding the camera up to my face so I just removed the rubber from the grip. In the OPs pictures the rubber looks just like my smelly one.
Stig said:thanks, nice to get a reply from somebody who actually studied chemistry
Stig said:though ye, I thought that toxins don't always come as a bubbly green liquid : )
Stig said:... however some googling suggested that there might be a "phthalates smell")
Marsu42 said:you might mutate into a hulk-like "super photog", only take stellar shots and can carry a 5d3+70-200L2 all day long without flinching :->
xps said:I bought the grip from Ayex.
xps said:95€ @ amazon [...] So, it was a good deal. 265€ for the Orirginal Grip is a little bit to much