Long Lens Case for D500 with a Grip

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Fortkentdad

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I'm liking this new D500 I bought this week.
I love it with my 200-500mm Nikkor for birding.
I'm disappointed how quickly it burns through batteries (although it helps to turn on "airplane mode")
But I'm thinking of getting a grip - not the Nikon one, that is way too much. But maybe a B&H Vello or Amazon's Neewer or Mieke or _______??
BUT - then my camera and lens will not fit into my current long lens bag. I bought an Ape Case ACPROLC18 from B&H. Works great, can even hold lens, camera with T.C. attached. But that is all.

Any recommendations?

Work around is to take the camera and lens separately. sub-optimal but do-able.
 
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Fortkentdad

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no replies - suggests either nobody uses a long lens with a gripped D500 - not too likely, or their ain't a long lens case fat enough for a D500 with grip, or nobody loves me, everybody hates, me, out to the garden to eat worms yum yum

I looked at several camera shops online inventories and found none I think would work - short of a monster hard pelican style case.
 
Roy1961

Roy1961

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i like you mate.

i dont have a grip or a bag, other than the case that came with my 50 - 500 sigma (it only holds the lens). i usally wrap my cam lens in a blanket with i travel in the car, bagged (with the 70-300mm )when in the house.

PS post a pic of those yum yum worms. lol
 
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RocketCowboy

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Both my D810 and D500 spend a lot of time gripped, but I don't have a bag that will hold the 200-500 with a body attached. The 200-500 gets its own bag, and everything else shares a bag...so I have to remove the big lens from the body before I pack up and go.


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Whiskeyman

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Look at the Think Tank Glass Limo. Its specs are to hold up to a 500 f/4 with a pro body attached. You can contact the company to confirm:
email - [email protected]

or

phone - 866-558-4465 , extension 1 (USA Only)

Good luck.

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BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

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I've got a PiXeL grip for mine but it doesn't spend much time on there. Turn the airplane mode on and the touch screen off. I leave my camera on all the time and shoot 50-300 shots a day and go a week+ without changing batteries.

And another alternative would be to bring an extra battery or two. I think they're pocket sized. ;)
 
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Whiskeyman

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BackdoorHippie said:
I've got a PiXeL grip for mine but it doesn't spend much time on there. Turn the airplane mode on and the touch screen off. I leave my camera on all the time and shoot 50-300 shots a day and go a week+ without changing batteries.

And another alternative would be to bring an extra battery or two. I think they're pocket sized. ;)
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Thanks for the tip, Jake. I'm going to check those settings on my camera and change them if needed. If you do bring two batteries, a good technique is to not put them in the same pocket without some form of mechanical isolation.

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wev

wev

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Fortkentdad said:
I'm disappointed how quickly it burns through batteries (although it helps to turn on "airplane mode")
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No thoughts on the bag -- haven't found one that will hold my gripped 500 and the tam 150-600 either.

As for the battery, it is known that the first few charges will seem go quickly, but the battery will then do better. Mine shot around 600 the first go, but now I get around 1250 per charge. I only shoot jpeg, but I chimp the screen a lot and don't generally turn it off except when changing lenses.

Also make sure you are using the newer EN-EL15, rather than the 10 the cameras originally shipped with. Nikon will do an exchange, if you have the older ones.
 
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Fortkentdad

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wev said:
No thoughts on the bag -- . . .

Also make sure you are using the newer EN-EL15, rather than the 10 the cameras originally shipped with. Nikon will do an exchange, if you have the older ones.
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I had two second gen. EN-EL-15's and one of the first gen versions. Nikon Canada is exchanging it for me, they sent me a Purolator prepaid label by email - printed it and gave it and the battery to the courier and it was off to Nikon middle of last week. Should get a new one back sometime before the end of October. Just joking we will see what the turn around time is on this - it did take them a couple of weeks to get my D500 to my local camera shop.

I will need to pay attention to the number of shots I get - tend to recharge when it gets low (as in under 20%, unless I have a big day and then it gets topped up. I know that years ago it was always recommended to almost drain rechargeables before recharging as they had 'memory' issues and this would reduce the capacity of the battery. But I understand that all changed with the newer lithium batteries, recharging before they are drained does not hurt. OR so I've been lead to believe.

Started with a full charge this a.m. and shot 342 images today, battery now reports 64% left. Today 90% of the shots were with a manual focus lens (Lensbaby Fisheye) so the lens was taking nothing from the battery. I did a little chimping and we reviewed a lot of the images at a restaurant. But at that rate the battery should get to that 1200 shot mark.


The other battery issue I've noted is that when the battery is low it will not work. Next time I run the battery down so far the D500 will not turn on, I'm going to drop that battery in one of my other EN-EL15 cameras and see if that camera powers up and if so, what does it say about the battery capacity. When I do that I'll post the results.
 
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Whiskeyman

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Fortkentdad said:
The other battery issue I've noted is that when the battery is low it will not work. Next time I run the battery down so far the D500 will not turn on, I'm going to drop that battery in one of my other EN-EL15 cameras and see if that camera powers up and if so, what does it say about the battery capacity. When I do that I'll post the results.
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Let us know what you find out!

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