Hi, EOS-1DX came with a LP-E4 battery and I subsequently bough a second. A year later I bought an additional LP-E4N battery. These are all charged with DC18RC battery charger. After Covid and hence lack of use, both LP-E4 battery will no longer charge, leaving me with one battery. I contacted my Canon distributor in Ireland and they told me that they no longer sell this battery but offered an LP-E19 battery and that I would also have to buy a new charger. Can someone tell me if the LP-E19 battery will charge in the DC18RC battery charger. P.S. I bought the camera new for €7000 at the end of 2015, my 6th EOS1 in a row. Dropping support for a flagship camera after such a short period of time would seem like very poor customer support. I am hoping someone can tell me this isn't true.
The Mark 1 1DX came out in 2011, and the Mark 2 was Feb of 2016. The newer E19 batteries were out at that time. Canon really doesn't have a reason to keep producing 3 generations of the same basic battery design when the batteries last for a decade and there are tons of after market batteries and chargers making it hard for them to sell any units of the old batteries. You could try some 3rd party (aftermarket) brand and see how that goes, I have not had the best luck with them being close to the quality of canon ones when it came to batteries for my 5d's, but at 350 bucks for a charger i think i would research some of the options for more reputable 3 party battery and give it a go. Regarding your DC18RC?? model charger.... i have no idea what that is, google returns a makita power drill charger with that model. Looks like your original charger was an LC E4, so i am not sure on that model you gave. The nice thing is they are backwards compatible with the new series so they did not drop support even though they have multiple newer models. You could invest and have the newer batteries and charger for a new 1dx if you upgrade. You could also look on ebay and pickup a charger from someone used if you can find a good deal if the E19 really needs the newer charger.
You are right, the Mark 2 came out in Feb of 2016 However, in December 2015, the Mark 1 1DX was still Canons flagship camera. It would be nice to still be able to buy a battery for it 7 years later. However, it is what it is and I will try your advise and buy a generic. I will also try to revive the dead batteries, but making a contact looks difficult. Oh, and you were right about the Makita charger, when I swung my chair around to my work desk, I read the wrong charger. Thanks
So I have all the generations of the LP batteries and they charge in same charger, for my 5Ds because i have several bodies, I do not see why they cant be charged cross charge, they should be the same voltage, and just be larger capacity. Similar should be for your 1D series, like i said they phase out the battery series after the next one is established. They expect that people will get the newer one, the costs don't really change they just upgrade to the higher capacity battery, you may wanna dig in and confirm if you can use your older charger for sure on the newer battery . Again the design should just be a backwards compatible upgrade as they pointed out on the battery. I don't see this as dropping support as much as upgrading the accessories.
In short double check with canon now that you know you had the wrong charger model, the person on the end of the phone may not have realized it was not even a canon charger sometimes its a very low tier support person on a script.
