January 19, 2012

Are your CR2 batteries Genuine or Pirated?

For the new Fujifilm Instax models, mini 25 & mini 50s, we use Lithium CR2 batteries for them. Panasonic CR2 are included in box if you are getting the new ones, they seem expensive to get from the grocery stores. There are many cheap ones from the internet, but have you ever thought those are pirated? They might harm your cameras/devices and they ran out of battery very fast. Let's see what are the differences between genuine and pirated from the following photos. All the bottom ones are pirated.
A reversed "LR" is printed on the genuine ones 
and the words look BOLD on the pirated ones.


Pirated ones have a little black plastic cover at
the top but genuine ones DO NOT.

The genuine has a little space at the top
but the pirated one has none.

They both have the word "Made in Japan" but
pirated ones have "Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd."
instead of  "Panasonic Corporation"

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