d7000 battery grip (Page 2): Good! Worth the try and that price difference!

ardcat

Good! Worth the try and that price difference!

Edmund Dworakowski

Nikon grips are built like a tank and the other are built like toys. You will never be sorry if you buy the Nikon, the others will not live up to the quality of your Nikon camera.
The original investment is more, but you only get what you pay for...if you're lucky.

ardcat

Edmund you are right! Not luck, just good common sense! And i'm going to go ahead and buy the Nikon. I don't have any kids to give my money when i die. So there!!!

Edmund Dworakowski

spoken like a true old fart...like me.
I use the MB 10 on my D300s and wouldn't be without it.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

Edmund Dworakowski wrote:

Nikon grips are built like a tank and the other are built like toys. You will never be sorry if you buy the Nikon, the others will not live up to the quality of your Nikon camera.
The original investment is more, but you only get what you pay for...if you're lucky.

Prove it, I have "others" and there is little difference and I speak from experience, never waste money on something you done need when the Hahnel is JUST as good

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Let them spend their money as they see fit....I don't begrudge anyone for their choices, even though I may not agree

rodart Loc: Comanche, TX

darkmanCANADA wrote:

Of all the battery grips out there which on do you guys have experience with and reccommend? I already have 2 EL-15 batteries. I just would like a better grip when shooting vertically.

Prices from B&H are:

Bower $60.95 comes with a EL-15A battery
Vello $69.95
Hahnel $129.00
Nikon $211

I only speak from MY experience. Anything that REALLY matters with camera equipment that I have purchased in the aftermarket has failed. I'm referring to cords, flashes etc... In my opinion, this is a very important piece of equipment. First off, you are putting it on your camera body and it is part of the function of the camera. I shoot a d7000 with the Nikon grip and I feel it performs flawlessly. It hurts a little to spend the money, but it works... My 2 cents.

Robert

ardcat

JR1 wrote:

Prove it, I have "others" and there is little difference and I speak from experience, never waste money on something you done need when the Hahnel is JUST as good

OK i realize your are from the UK, but please, what is a Hahnel?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

I purchased the Canon grip for my 7D because I felt the same as some of you about OEM equipment. But I've had a few problems with it. First off, it won't recognize both batteries if I replace both of them at the same time. If I put one fresh charged battery in, turn it on, turn it off, then install another fresh battery and turn it on, the camera registers both. Also, I've had problems where it wasn't making good contact even though it was good and tight. Weird things were happening and they wouldn't go away until in R&R the battery grip and R&R each battery. I've also heard others complain that the thumb screw gets stripped so that it can't be removed. This is on the OEM grip.

Then I talked to some friends about other 3rd party grips so I tried one (Vello) and it works flawlessly. It looks as good if not better than OEM and it was 1/3rd the price of OEM. Both batteries register when I install them at the same time. No weird things have happened so far. And I'm sure that B&H will take it back if I don't like it.

Edmund Dworakowski

If you can't see a difference, then you can't see a difference... I doen't mean then that there is a significant difference. That is the reason that my MB 10 cost $250 and the plastic Chineese imposter costs signicantly less.
Apples & Oranges...

majeskiphoto Loc: Hamilton, Ontario

If your going to hang your camera and lens with
any contraption which uses the tripod socket of
the grip as the attachment, I would buy the
OEM grip. I've seen pics of a Nikon with 80-200
and cheap brand grip, with the tripod socket ripped
right out of the grip!
I know My 6D grip has a metal frame and beefy
socket mounting.

Bballer Loc: White Plains, NY

rodart wrote:

I only speak from MY experience. Anything that REALLY matters with camera equipment that I have purchased in the aftermarket has failed. I'm referring to cords, flashes etc... In my opinion, this is a very important piece of equipment. First off, you are putting it on your camera body and it is part of the function of the camera. I shoot a d7000 with the Nikon grip and I feel it performs flawlessly. It hurts a little to spend the money, but it works... My 2 cents.

Robert

We can now jack that up to 4cents (you 2 plus mine). I have used Nikon grips on all of my camers (7 including the d7000) and I wouldn't use anything else.

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

darkmanCANADA wrote:

Why jack my thread with your pic? It has nothing to do with battery grips.

Bad manners and a failure to read the TOS. I'd stay with the Nikon grip, they're built to last and will add far more value to your camera should you decide to sell later to upgrade and you know you will, come on you know you will.

bobbygee

darkmanCANADA wrote:

Of all the battery grips out there which on do you guys have experience with and reccommend? I already have 2 EL-15 batteries. I just would like a better grip when shooting vertically.

Prices from B&H are:

Bower $60.95 comes with a EL-15A battery
Vello $69.95
Hahnel $129.00
Nikon $211

I bought the Cello unit 6 months ago and the only issue was why didn't' I buy it sooner.

bobbygee

That should say Vello not Cello--fat fingers