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Canon BP 2L14 Battery for Canon HG HV ZR Optura and Elura Camcorders

The Canon BP2L14 is a Lithium-ion battery for ZR100, ZR200, ZR300, Optura, and Elura camcorders. Charge and carry it as a spare for your camcorder, doubling your amount of uninterrupted shooing time.

Lithium-ion batteries, unlike Nickel-Cadmium batteries, are free of memory effect, which can reduce the usable power of the battery over time.

The Canon BP2L14 is compatible with the following Canon camcorder models:

• Elura 60
• Elura 65
• Elura 70
• Elura 80
• Elura 85
• Elura 90
• Optura 30
• Optura 40
• Optura 400
• Optura 500
• ZR100
• ZR200
• ZR300

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Very pleased
This battery is amazing. A must have item. It is fit into my HG10 nicely. Just slightly bigger than the piece of craps battery that came with the canon HG10. This battery should have come with the HG10. Every time I used the HG10 for 15-20 minutes and the battery still shown full power. The original battery would have shown 1/2 power or need to be recharge.

4 Stars Not the extended use battery for HV30
Good battery to replace the one that comes with the HV30, but this is not the extended use battery.

5 Stars Works great
Purchased this for our video camera over a year ago. It really helps ensure that we won’t run out of power for an event.

5 Stars Great battery!!
Had to buy to replace the one we bought over four years ago. We got hundreds and hundreds of hours of recording on our camcorder with this battery. I know we’ll get long life out of it. There is long usage between charges. You definately get your money’s worth.

5 Stars Works great for me
I took two of these batteries with me on a recent trip to China – I always recharged them overnight and didn’t have any situations during the day while site-seeing where I ran out of battery juice. I used them in a Canon HV30 video camera and they have more than enough juice for me to watch my 1 hour HD tapes on the plane flight back.

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Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE7 Talking Travel Translator for 7 International Languages

Talking Translator/ 7 Language

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Interesting product
This works really well, but I’m not sure how practical it is at the end of the day. Yes, it’s smaller than bringing a book along — particularly if you’re off to Europe where you’d need several books! But, the notion of stopping down to sort through the menus and find the translations seems like it would be more annoying in the long run.

Still, having this along for a trip would probably be helpful and if you’re foreign language challenged, this little device could certainly help get you out of a jam!

5 Stars Excellent Touring Tool
This travel translator exceeded my expectations. It has all the phrases you would want for an average tourist. It is extremely user friendly. The translator is easy to hear and understand the translation as it is spoken. I did extensive research on talking translators and this one is the best value out there. I would highly recommend this travel translator to anyone travelling that knows nothing about the native language of the country they are visiting.

4 Stars Useful
I am qualified to review the Spanish language tool in this device, and it is perfectly adequate for the usual tourist needs. I’m less qualified to review the French and Italian tools, but they seem fine. The user interface is easy and straightforward. It’s light and pocket-sized. Battery life seems good. I’ll take it on my next trip to China.

4 Stars Pretty good tool
Well I read all the reviews before I purchased, this is a nice little tool and comes in very handy. What you should know is if you need a phrase you’re probably not going to find it quickly enough to use unless you already have it stored in your favorites. Even if you do, if you have quite a few in your favorites you may have the same problem.

The phrases are categorized by broad heading, there aren’t as many useful phrases as I had hoped.

Since I’m learning Mandarin it’s a step in the right direction.

3 Stars Needs improvement! A book is faster!
I got this Nyrius Global translator just in time for my trip to Europe. It was indeed small and pocketable, about the size of a deck of cards. While it’s awesome it translates up to 7 languages, it is missing the key ingredient in making it functional – ease of use.

I like the small size but the small, irregular size buttons make this difficult to use. The black and white (80’s/90’s) style LCD screen also make this hard to see and use in the 21st century! You can probably find something better on PDAs and those everything-phones and not have to carry an extra gadget around.

Anyhows, I usually never have to bother with reading instruction manuals, but in this case it was necessary after flipping through the numerous categories for travel, food, hotel, etc…and that’s alot times 7 languages!

I like the ability to translate/talk from the native language to the selected one, and vice-versa, however it takes alot of button-pushing to arrive at your chosen phrase. And by that time, I’m sure you could have already hand-gestured what you needed to the other person. It is a hassle to go through the many steps, but luckily there is a save favorite phrases button. There’s also a helpful backlight for when you’re traveling and it’s dark out.

I don’t know any of the languages on there except English and Mandarin Chinese, but some of the translations from the latter aren’t exactly correct, or it’s phrased so formally and not casual speak. I would assume that goes for all the 7 languages translated, so just beware.

I can’t say I recommend this over just getting a small book of travel phrases and highlighting useful pages, this will definitely be faster, but you don’t get the talking part, which is useful if you’re actually wanting to learn how to say something.

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