No it still can happen but maybe not as easily in a pure business setting. When my son was young we had dirt bikes, go carts and snowmobiles, as did other neighbors and friends. The kids were taught to work on them all and respect doing a job correctly using the proper tools. My rule for MX racing was if my son didn’t have the bike serviced and ready to go we would stay home. I only recall not going once in about 10 years.

As they got older the work turned to cars and lifted trucks. My son built a 383 stroker engine for his high school senior project. Out of those kids we ended up with a master mechanic and drag racing champion, a automotive performance center owner and a career army master mechanic in charge of maintaining helicopters, as well as a few others in technical careers. So it can be done.

Reminds me of this old used car dealer. “Dapper Dan your used car man, I’d give em away but my wife won’t let me!”

Check out Jeff Cable’s blog... he normally shoots the high end DSLRs but has been testing the R5/6 for a good while. He is very impressed...

Power inverter to run your regular charger might be the least expensive and most versatile way to go.

I prefer the bodies with the integrated vertical grips, but many don’t. I can suggest you contact Biggs Camera on King Street in Charlotte. The may stock an appropriate grip for your Nikon or even gave a used one. If so you could go down and try it. The Best Buy at North Lake, near the mall, also has a pretty good selection of camera stuff. Might be worth a call.

If I was buying an add on grip I would probably get an OEM one. But that’s just my preference for equipment...

We'll have to agree to disagree in this one...

Then I guess the question is what exactly does input weigh...😳😎

If you are looking for around 50mm on your crop body you might take a look at the 40mm pancake lens. It is very small and very sharp edge to edge. It is also around $200 or less new. My daughter has one I gave her. I have a 24-70II f2.8 so I didn’t need it. And it looks ridiculous on my 1D body...

Interesting, thanks for sharing...

Yes, I follow his blog. He did mention that he rarely used his DSLRs since getting the R5 and R6 bodies...

You can just setup for 16 FPS and hold the shutter down and get the 6,000 shots in about 6.25 minutes. I don’t think that would use much battery...

Don’t know how he sorts his images. But Jeff Cable, who shoots the Olympics, said he shot nearly 85,000 photos at one Olympics and culled it down to 45,000 keepers...

I have had the 1Dx2 since 2016. I guess my input would be it depends on shooting mode and a few other factors. Live View will use up battery faster as can the GPS settings. I think I have mine set to update GPS location every 5 or 15 minutes... I’m usually shooting in the same general area so that is sufficient. I also have mine set to sleep after a minute as the startup time is like 1/10th second. How long and what you display on the rear screen could also be a factor.

That said in warm weather shooting I get probably 2000-3500 shots on a battery. I bought a spare battery for mine when I purchased it. I also still have an old 1D MkIII which uses a similar battery. So I have 3 batteries for 2 bodies. But the old body really rarely gets used. The high iso capabilities are miles apart.

I have thought about a 3 but will probably wait and see what they come up with as a mirrorless 1D.

My philosophy has always been to buy high quality tools and not that many of them. Cameras or woodworking it works for me. Maybe one day I will buy some Martin woodworking machines.

But I have seen people who can cut dovetails with a hacksaw and a screwdriver. But the question is why?

I agree and don’t buy a bunch of cards. I bought a 128gb CFast card when I got my 1Dx2 in 2016. I think it cost $360 then. My camera came with a 64gb card and reader. I can fit about 5,000 shots on the 128 and have not shot more than 2500 in one day... Certainly disk space is much less expensive...

Processing video takes a lot of computing power. I know people that use phones to live stream drag racing and the phones will often overheat...especially in hot weather. It may be an issue of the camera not being able to cool itself fast enough...