Olympus C-7000 Battery Questions

Hi, I've got an Olympus C-7000 camera. I needed a spare battery so I bought
one on line.
The vendor suggested I buy a battery from him that was more powerful than
the battery that came from the camera, After loading the fully charged
replacement battery I noticed my camera took several seconds longer to
startup and I only got about 3/4 of the photos I got w/ the stock battery.
If I tried to use the video function it used up the replacement battery very
quickly. I finally bought a replacment battery from Amazon and my camera
takes many more pictures before the battery runs out of juice and starts up
very quickly.

Are all ono OEM replacement batteries less powerful than OEM batteries?

Is it standard procedure to represent batteries as being more powerful than
they are?

Mike

"Mike" wrote in message

> Hi, I've got an Olympus C-7000 camera. I needed a spare battery so I
> bought one on line.
> The vendor suggested I buy a battery from him that was more powerful than
> the battery that came from the camera, After loading the fully charged
> replacement battery I noticed my camera took several seconds longer to
> startup and I only got about 3/4 of the photos I got w/ the stock battery.
> If I tried to use the video function it used up the replacement battery
> very quickly. I finally bought a replacment battery from Amazon and my
> camera takes many more pictures before the battery runs out of juice and
> starts up very quickly.
>
> Are all ono OEM replacement batteries less powerful than OEM batteries?
>
> Is it standard procedure to represent batteries as being more powerful
> than they are?
>
> Mike
>
>
Hi.

The answer is no.

There seems to be a considerable variance between what batteries state as
their capacities and the actual capacity. I have a very cheap non OEM spare
battery which is rated below the Nikon original, but there does not seem to
be any actual difference.

I suspect all take an optimistic view of their test figures.

Roy G