Cannon HV20 Battery BP-2L14
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Cannon HV20 Battery BP-2L14
The first thing you'll notice about the back of the HV20 is that it's fat and wide. The HV20 Battery is notably broader than the HC7's, but the HV20 battery chamber does not delve into the body as deeply. This is a shame because Canon really skimped on the HV20's viewfinder—it's short, has no rubberized eyecup, and cannot be extended or pivoted upward. If you upgrade your power supply, you will be greeted with a whole face full ‘o battery. In addition, the minute dioptric adjuster, to the left of the viewfinder's lens, is nearly impossible to slide. The HC7's viewfinder is wide, retractable, and has a rubberized ring. Are you taking notes, Canon? So far the Sony HDR-HC7 has trumped in the HV20 in design, and with little respite it only continues from here.
To the right of the battery is a strip containing the FireWire and HDMI terminals, housed by a thin, rubberized plastic enclosure. Toward the battery end of the HV20, on top of the LCD screen, is the display button and mini video light/print button. It's a good thing Canon threw a video light button on the HV20, because it would not be worth wasting the time questing through the menu to access it.Toward the battery end of the camcorder, there is a long, shield-like plastic cover.
About 40 minutes of recording time off of a full charge... The battery on our HV20 lasted 113 minutes and 22 seconds (1 hour, 53 minutes, and 22 seconds). In comparison, the battery on the Canon HV10 lasted for 71 minutes and the Sony HDR-HC7 lasted for 98 minutes. Well, one extra battery is always good and at least you can find batteries easily for HV20 unlike rootkit-virus Sony's extremely proprietary InfoSh*ts which cost arm and half leg. .
We got one impact 2l14 and it works great. i've been fairly impressed with the battery life even with the stock battery. i've been getting about 90min rec time out of the 2l13 and a little more than 2 hrs out of the impact 2l14. and thats putting the cam on the tripod hitting record and walking away. as soon as payday comes round i'll be picking up a couple more of those too. as a side note i've been using the battery charger that came with my rebel xt(uses NB-2Lh's), and it appears to work fine for charging these batteries.
