IDguy Loc: Idaho

Sort of an update. Still no word from Adorama on the Nikon Z50 battery I ordered.

Checked on Nikonusa site. Backordered there too.

Obviously some issue they’d rather not share with customers. My guess is like the Chinese with PPE: they are hogging all they can get to supply with camera orders.

Bill_de Loc: US

I hope you will let us know when they do get them in.

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yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

I placed an order with B&H on Jan 8th for the Z50 battery while it was still backordered, and received it on Jan 21. Still haven't received the bluetooth remote control which was ordered at the same time.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Adorama got around to sending notice today. Still on backorder and no projected delivery.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Still on backorder.

Something must be wrong. No word on the street. Even Nikon has them on backorder. Their factory must have fallen into a sinkhole or something and they don’t want to own up to it.

Perhaps it has a design issue like blowing up and they need to redesign.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Hope springs eternal. Just got a charge on my credit card for the exact amount of the battery. The ticket says from Adorama. No notice from Adorama and their web site still shows my battery as backorded. Hopefully just a timing issue.

They changed the product page to say they expect some in few days. So if you want one might be a good time to jump on it.

On the good news side I’ve been impressed by the charge capacity of the battery that came with it.

User ID

Thanks for the heads up about the Z6 and (my vast hoard of) Wasabis for (FF) Nikon’s. The more user feedback that I read, the less the Z series appeals to me. All of my Nikkors serve quite well enough on my Sonys, and those Sonys love all my Wasabi batteries.

I have two Nikon SLRs that were each bundled very cheaply with lenses that I wanted. My “New Year’s Resolution” was to make better use of those that pair of paperweights, but we all know how New Year’s Resolve just dissolves ...

So thanks again for yet more user news from the Nikon Z scene. I’ll just migrate my Z fund over to my Sony fund.


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Very specific Wasabi user’s experience follows below. No further Nikon content:

My Canon 5D(III)SR does not like the Refuel brand but Wasabis pass as Canon OEM. FWIW, the Refuel and the Wasabis are a few years old.

Last year I got an OMD EM1-II with it’s one Olympus OEM battery, so I went to BlueNook for Wasabi. Their site explains their two prices for EM-1 batteries. Both types work but full communication cost extra. The $$ difference was small so I spent the extra. No problems.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

I tried a Sony a few years back. While the hardware (NEX7) was great I couldn’t adapt to their control and menu approach. It went down the road.

I still have a Panasonic M 4/3. Although different its menu and control approach are OK for me. But I plan to send it away soon too because my Z50 excels and isn’t much heavier. Even though the GM5 is really small.

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Loooove my GM5 ... pair of red ones. So small and so silly looking in red that no one takes me seriously. IOW I appear casual and non threatening in public.

About the Z50 batteries, I stumbled upon them at Adorama while looking for something else.

Listed as “In Stock” so I tested it. I put them in my shopping cart and got NO odd messages. I stopped short of the checkout line cuz I didn’t actually need to buy them.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Finally!

IDguy Loc: Idaho

The GM5 (red) is what I have too.

They ruined its successor by eliminating the EVF.

It is a cool little camera but I use it so rarely now I have to consult the manual often to figure out how to do stuff. Unlike Sony their control and menu system are OK for me. And it works fine with wasabi batteries.

The Z50 takes better images. Especially at higher ISOs. And doesn’t weigh that much more with 16-50 lens. But most importantly the controls and menus are the same as the Z6. And I can hook it to my 200-500 for wildlife and to my 10-24 for landscape...albeit with much more weight.

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I posted an outright announcement in a new thread to tell the group about the batteries. Then the admin defeated it by burying it over in “Links and Resources”. I did reply to admin that this NEWS and not resources (no effect).

But I did manage to tell the group about the batteries by wrapping the news in a typical UHH dumb assed thread asking if the batteries might be counterfeit.

That worked !! At UHH stoopidity isn’t just endemic, it’s vitally essential !!

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The Z50 is several years more advanced and the image at the sensor is 1.5X bigger. If it didn’t clobber the the GM5 at IQ then something would be seriously amiss. For general use, the old Lumix is still great. It’s so tiny it’s really hard to take it seriously ... especially in red :-)