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Posted: Fri Sep 13th, 2019 13:09

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GeoffR

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I used to think that too but, I am sure that, like me, you would take a different view if you faced the prospect of paying £190 each for genuine batteries. Given that this amounts to around 20% of what I paid for the camera (D4) it represents very poor value. I use three third party batteries that together cost less than £100 and work perfectly as far as I can tell.

I recently bought a third party charger, mainly because it came with an adaptor to allow EN-EL4 batteries to be charged as well, it cost £44. The Nikon adaptor costs £139, if you can find one.

Posted: Fri Sep 13th, 2019 15:35

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Robert

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I don't believe there is a significant risk to safety or the camera using an 'after market' battery, that said I have gone to some lengths to try to ensure the battery is of good quality. Seeking confirmation from others as to the reliability of particular vendors.

Geoff makes a good point, when I was looking to use the D3 for winter night time photography the batteries, both genuine and otherwise were performing very badly in sub -10C temperatures. Four new genuine Nikon EN-EL4 batteries would have cost me £600, even if I had £600 I wouldn't spend it on batteries. I eventually decided to go with lead acid but that was before I got the D800, which although I haven't yet used it in sub -10C temperatures yet, it is performing much better than the D3 did in similarly cold conditions. Kielder, or Northern Scotland, later this year will confirm that.

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