The plastic molding might be identical but the electronics might not be.
Inferior materials might have been substituted even if the grip were
manufactured on the same assembly line as the offical grip.
John Sessoms wrote:
If these are what I think they are, the only way Pentax would know it
was "third party" would be by the lack of official serial number.
I think Pentax bid out the job manufacturing the BG-2 battery grip to
some Chinese factory, and some midnight entrepreneurs there just kept
the machinery running, churning these out after Pentax's official
order was filled.
These would be, therefore, identical to the Pentax BG-2.
From: "P. J. Alling"
No but it may fail is some way that is not possible if the official
unit was used, or in such a way as to point to the grip as the
culprit, and request it be returned for replacement. Now I suppose
you could refuse but they might become suspicious. I've had
warranted repair denied because my MX camera had been abused, abuse
which I am sure happened after it left my possession on it's way to
Pentax repair. Yes, it was a long time ago.
Anthony Farr wrote:
> 2009/7/28 P. J. Alling <[email protected]>:
>
>> It looks just like the original. If you get it and something
goes wrong
>> with the camera it probably voids the warranty.
>>
>
> So if something goes wrong and you send the camera for warranty work,
> would you leave a third party accessory attached to point out your
> brand disloyalty? How could Pentax know that a third party accessory
> had been used?
>
> It reminds me of the brand (forgotten which one) which recently
> declared that use of third party batteries would void a camera's
> warranty. Do they have snoop-ware in the firmware that can sniff out
> non-compliant attachments and create a hidden log-file?
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