Fujifilm issued an updated warning on counterfeit Fujifilm batteries circulating on the market.
We talked about counterfeits here on FujiRumors in the past and shared the visual guide on spotting the fakes by Dom Varney.
We have already reported about Dom Varney’s articles “Powering the Fujifilm X-T3” and “Fujifilm NP-W126S Battery Counterfeits – A Visual Guide to Spotting the Fakes“.
He now also published the most comprehensive guide to Fujifilm original and third party batteries I have ever seen on the web so far.
The tested batteries are:
It’s a massive write-up, impossible to sum up quickly. So I’ll just share a short excerpt:
Let’s talk about counterfeits, an age-old problem, as also the recent fake SanDisk SD-cards scandal at AmazonUS shows.
Now, there will always be those, who make a cheap imitations trying to suck a few dollars from your pockets. So we better learn to recognize fakes.
In case of the above mentioned SD-cards, this AmazonUS customer explains here what’s the difference between the original and the fake SanDisk SD-card.
In the Fujifilm world, one of the counterfeit products you might encounter are fake Fujifilm NP-W126S batteries.
