Scott Murray
Senior Member
Well today I decided that instead of buying the expensive battery pack I would buy 2 extra EN EL 15 battery's fro my D800. Hopefully this will suffice me.
Its ok I like hijacking rants, I find the D800 great as is and my D80 with grip and dual EN EL 18's a great match too. I have contemplated about buying a grip as I can easily go through 900 shots in a day, but with now 3 x EN EL 15's I should be covered. Plus my D80 can run 6mths with out a recharge (and use ).Here's what I've learned since receiving my D800. Because I'm a big guy and have very large hands, I bought a 3rd party grip because I liked having a grip on my D7000 so much I figured it would translate over to the D800 but it didn't work out that way. After having it on for about a month I took it off. It just made the darn camera too big and clunky. The D7000 is different and the grip gives me more stability but the D800's ergonomics is nearly perfect as-is and a grip on it just made it too cumbersome for me. So what I do now is cycle thru my EL-15's between the D7000 and D800 and I've shot long hours at a time and haven't run into any problems yet.
You know, on the subject of the D7000, I tried shooting with it again last week and it just felt like I was using a miniature camera, everything felt small and the view finder seemed to give such a dinky view. I've come to the conclusion that my lovely D7000 is just going to gather dust and the only right thing to do is sell her. Conceptually it seemed like having 2 cameras was a good thing but in reality you really only need one, the other will just sit idle 99% of the time. (sorry if I've high jacked your thread with my rant.... )
Here's what I've learned since receiving my D800. Because I'm a big guy and have very large hands, I bought a 3rd party grip because I liked having a grip on my D7000 so much I figured it would translate over to the D800 but it didn't work out that way. After having it on for about a month I took it off. It just made the darn camera too big and clunky. The D7000 is different and the grip gives me more stability but the D800's ergonomics is nearly perfect as-is and a grip on it just made it too cumbersome for me. So what I do now is cycle thru my EL-15's between the D7000 and D800 and I've shot long hours at a time and haven't run into any problems yet.
You know, on the subject of the D7000, I tried shooting with it again last week and it just felt like I was using a miniature camera, everything felt small and the view finder seemed to give such a dinky view. I've come to the conclusion that my lovely D7000 is just going to gather dust and the only right thing to do is sell her. Conceptually it seemed like having 2 cameras was a good thing but in reality you really only need one, the other will just sit idle 99% of the time. (sorry if I've high jacked your thread with my rant.... )