Friday, 15 January 2010

Is there a battery grip that is compatible with a Canon sx20 or sx10?

I've been looking into battery grips and I'm wondering if one exists for my camera, since I've seized to see one for it.

Best Answer

Battery grips are for DSLRs, not for bridge cameras.

Answer by selina_555 on 03 Jan 2010 11:51:55

There used to be battery/vertical grips for the higher end point and shoot cameras, but I haven't seen one in many years. That was when a DSLR was out of reach of most of the population, and a camera like yours was $1,000 by itself.

Now, you can attach something like a Quantum Compact Battery 1 to the tripod socket of the camera, but you get no shooting controls. Just a large battery hanging on the bottom of your camera. I used to do this with a Nikon Coolpix 5000, pretty good camera for it's day and age, but battery life was horrible. Even with the available vertical/battery grip, you couldn't get much more than 200 shots out of the Nikon batteries. With the big Quantum battery, I could shoot for a couple days, plus it would power the external flash at the same time!

Answer by Caoedhen on 03 Jan 2010 12:09:46

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