Home > Consumer Reviews > Olympus BLM-01 Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery for C7070, C8080, E1, E300 & E500 Digital Cameras

This battery shoots and shoots and shoots! I used it for ten days of faily heavy shooting and it was up to the challenge. It's much, much better than buying alkaline batteries.

Excelent Battery! I recommend it for all Olympus SLR Digital Cameras. I am using it on my E300 and you can take a lot of pictures in one day. I have 2 batteries because of outdoors shoots and this is really enough.

When I bought my Evolt E-500 it came with a genuine Olympus battery, and I bought a knockoff to use as a hot spare. Admittedly they are new and performance will degrade over time, but in identical conditions the genuine Olympus lasts up to 500 pictures and the knockoff barely 300. I bought a second Olympus battery and have more confidence going out into the field.

A trip to Europe requires a backup battery; so I purchased this as I didn't want to run out of battery in the middle of the day... Between my original battery and this "back up" I took over 1200 pictures and that required a recharge of each battery once on an 18 day trip. One might say "not bad" as a matter of fact it is outstanding as I didn't always remember to turn the camera off between locations and or shots.

This is a battery I use in my E-Volt 500. I've been impressed that I've never needed to change it in mid-session. What more is there to say? It's a battery that's reliable and does the job well.