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D810 goes crazy when MBD-12 battery pack dies
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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 516817" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>In my experience that's not how it works; not on my D750 and not on my D7100, either. When the battery has died in any of my Nikon bodies, the camera locks up with (as I recall) an error showing in the top LCD. At this point, I have to remove the dead battery, switch to a good battery, and restart the camera.</p><p></p><p>My setup is to use the battery in the grip first. When it dies, I pop the tray out of the grip, pocket the battery, lock the tray back in the grip and restart the camera. It's not as convenient as I'd like but it is what it is so I've adapted to it.</p><p></p><p>From your description it sounds like what was happening was the charge in the batteries in the grip was getting low. As the charge dropped there was too little power in them to do certain things, like display photos on the rear LCD (which is THE biggest draw on your battery/batteries). Dropping the shutter, on the other hand, requires very little battery power.</p><p></p><p>It's hard to say since I wasn't there but it sure sounds to me like the camera was simply struggling with too little power. You were thinking the second battery would take over when the first battery began to fail but as I pointed out, that's now how it works. You say that once you removed the grip, functioning went back to normal. This pretty much confirms in my mind the problem was with batteries in the grip not having enough power left in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 516817, member: 13090"] In my experience that's not how it works; not on my D750 and not on my D7100, either. When the battery has died in any of my Nikon bodies, the camera locks up with (as I recall) an error showing in the top LCD. At this point, I have to remove the dead battery, switch to a good battery, and restart the camera. My setup is to use the battery in the grip first. When it dies, I pop the tray out of the grip, pocket the battery, lock the tray back in the grip and restart the camera. It's not as convenient as I'd like but it is what it is so I've adapted to it. From your description it sounds like what was happening was the charge in the batteries in the grip was getting low. As the charge dropped there was too little power in them to do certain things, like display photos on the rear LCD (which is THE biggest draw on your battery/batteries). Dropping the shutter, on the other hand, requires very little battery power. It's hard to say since I wasn't there but it sure sounds to me like the camera was simply struggling with too little power. You were thinking the second battery would take over when the first battery began to fail but as I pointed out, that's now how it works. You say that once you removed the grip, functioning went back to normal. This pretty much confirms in my mind the problem was with batteries in the grip not having enough power left in them. [/QUOTE]
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