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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Padraig O'Connor" data-source="post: 516810" data-attributes="member: 39719">I posted last night but I guess it didn't go through. I have returned the camera and battery grip and I'm awaiting my refund. When I get it I will buy again this  time from B&H.To answer your question about how much I shot, I took about 150 pictures in three days. The battery grip had eight AA batteries in it since I had not received the EN-EL18 battery yet. I plan on buying a second one as a back-up. I see your point about pulling the EN-E15 battery out of the camera, this way when the grip battery is near exhaustion you replace it with a fresh battery so there will be no problem.  That never occurred to me(Dumb Ass). I can take the EN-EL15 battery and put it in the grip tray that came with it so I will have a back-up.I've been wondering about the batteries I used, and how fresh they were. I had just bought them two days previous. I went out three times for about a hour and and a half each time I shot and the batteries went totally dead the third time. In fact when I started shooting Sunday the battery indicator on the camera was almost at zero battery strength. I was kind of surprise the batteries had been used up that quick but was not concerned since I had a fully charged battery in the camera. I'm just guessing, but I think somehow the battery grip with dead batteries was somehow screwing up the camera. In my opinion this shouldn't of happen, when the grip is dead,I thought the camera battery was suppose to take over. In the end it's my fault for not checking on the condition of my batteries before going out on a shoot. But I may have lucked out by finding that I had a faulty camera I think I did the right thing by sending the camera and grip back instead of trouble shooting it. I just wanted to make sure I didn't have a lemon. Thanks for you input GracieBrian</blockquote>

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