Hey guys I am going to purchase a Nikon D7200 one way or another. After a lot of pricing research I see Cameta has a refurbished at $749 with a 1 year warranty and a few other sites have new at about $800. The same body and accessories with the 1 year warranty. It's not so much the $50 savings, I would probably add a remote shutter release anyway, but why spend more for the same thing? Plus Cameta has been my go store for awhile. I have never bought a refurbished body before. I have bought 2 refurbished lenses from Cameta before with excellent results so what do you think? Thanks and Happy Holidays.

Your manual or the Nikon website will tell you what battery designations are compatible with your camera. Just like my Canons where the LP-E6 and LP-E6N batteries interchange. The difference in mAH ratings simply indicates the battery's capacity. The only effect that has on a camera is in how long the battery will power it before you need to put in a fresh battery. The voltage rating for comparable batteries may vary by a tiny amount, such as 7.1 or 7.2 or 7.3, but that makes no difference. It's just in how the manufacturer determines the rating.
Nothing wrong with using third party batteries although a battery failure that damages the camera could void your warranty. Best to check. Such failures though are very rare. I've used genuine Canon as well as several different 3rd party batteries for years. The only failure I have had was with a brand new Canon LP-E6. Some of the cheaper 3rd party offerings do not have the necessary encoding to be able to communicate with your camera. Not normally a problem with the better quality ones. Watson and Power2000 are two of the brands I have used with absolutely no problem. They work and communicate just fine in both of my cameras, a 7DII and 5DIV, as they have in my previous cameras.
Retailers such as B&H and Adorama will often bundle 3rd party batteries with their new camera sales. Problems would cost them money and hurt their reputations. Apparently they are not worried about that happening. Neither am I.

Well, here we go again.

In 2007, four years later, I had upgraded my "pocket camera" to a Sony W-1, a 5-mgp camera. I know ... but you said this was about 3 megapixels. What gives?

My wife and I decided to celebrate our 40th anniversary by going the the British Isles and visiting more ancestral villages (they were poor too). I had just bought the camera ... will I ever learn ... and was too cheap to buy a second sony memory stick (heck they were expensive back then), so I decided to take all the pictures at 3 megapixels to save memory space. Sometimes I think my brain just does not work very well !!! Or maybe I just need decision matrix training.

So attached are a few shots, again in different light settings, to see if 3 mgp was viable. Obviously, if I had used 5 mgp, the clarity would be better.

Again, this is not about my pictures, but really a discussion about how much quality do we really need.

.Please share your conclusions and or strongly held opinions on the topic. Thanks.

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