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I've had this battery for about 5 months now, and it seems to work great. I used it on a wedding the other day, and held out for the entire shoot. While I don't use this battery every week, and I haven't put it through rigorous testing- it seems to be good for at least 6 hours of shooting on my GL1. It may last the full time advertised, but I haven't needed to use it for that amount of time since purchase. To be honest, if the battery only lasted 3 hours and was good for a year- I'd still love it. It costs only a fraction of an official Canon battery- and performs very very well. In this rare instance, you get way more than you pay for.

"I just want to thank you guys for the great battery at a unbelievable price. I will be buying more soon... I am so impressed... The deal looked to good to be true But it turns out it was true. I plan to get a couple more soon because I usually shoot with 2 or 3 cameras at a time and this is a great deal... Thanks Again, Marcus (Legends Studio)

Update 2/23/09...

I just ordered another one because you can't beat this battery especially for this price.

I may order a couple more just to have the spare's.

You better get yours now before I buy them all :)

This battery is every bit as good as the other reviews say, at a fraction of what the OEM Canon battery costs. We have used this battery on our Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom for a very long time and have not been disappointed.

Our results are roughly 3-5 hours using the LCD display and over 6 hours using the "viewfinder".

Highly recommended!

The battery is good. It came fast, and was fully charged, and the price was awesome.I payed 50 bucks for a battery just like it a year ago and this one was only 26.00$! great deal.

What a good buy... I'm so glad for the others who left a review for this battery. You guys saved me a lot of money. The battery works great for my Canon VL-10li II video light.