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<blockquote data-quote="Lindsay" data-source="post: 485664" data-attributes="member: 40439">I have a Nikon D7000. Some years ago I bought a 3rd party spare battery for it and it seems that the camera knows what brand of battery I have in the camera battery bay. At that point the camera refused to work with the battery even though it was electronically and physically the same as the Nikon EN-EL15 battery which came with the camera. B&amp;H kindly refunded my purchase price. I suspect that this is an Apple-ism or what some printer manufacturers do by using proprietary chipping in printer cartridges to force people to buy parts from Nikon.Is this still the case for the D7000? I'm looking at a Watson replacement for the EN-EL15 battery. Am I still likely to have this problem with the D7000? I haven't upgraded the firmware on the D7000 bit it's possible that Nikon has released the proper digital incantations to allow other manufacturers to provide batteries for this camera.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lindsay, post: 485664, member: 40439"] I have a Nikon D7000. Some years ago I bought a 3rd party spare battery for it and it seems that the camera [I]knows [/I]what brand of battery I have in the camera battery bay. At that point the camera refused to work with the battery even though it was electronically and physically the same as the Nikon EN-EL15 battery which came with the camera. B&H kindly refunded my purchase price. I suspect that this is an Apple-ism or what some printer manufacturers do by using proprietary chipping in printer cartridges to force people to buy parts from Nikon. Is this still the case for the D7000? I'm looking at a Watson replacement for the EN-EL15 battery. Am I still likely to have this problem with the D7000? I haven't upgraded the firmware on the D7000 bit it's possible that Nikon has released the proper digital incantations to allow other manufacturers to provide batteries for this camera. [/QUOTE]

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