To use these in a D800, can you just put a single battery in the main slot, or do you have to use a double-battery grip to trick the firmware?
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Hi Mari! Not familiar with the D800. My D7100 uses just one of these units. I had ordered two as spares for the one that came with the camera. Hope this helps and that I have understood your question correctly.
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Wow... I'm not sure. I've not had any problems with mine. I have one original nikon battery and one enel14 made by digipower. I would try attaching the grip first, then sliding in the battery tray. Or if you've already tried that.... Load the grip with the batteries, then attach the grip to camera. Does the "AA" tray work? If not, could be a bad grip. Hope this helps... Please do let me know. I'll be doing some research in the mean time.....
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Yes you can... No problem at all....They are the same batteries as the one that comes with the camera.
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You can set the battery order so that the camera will use either the internal battery or the one in the grip first. When one is depleted, the camera will switch to the other, giving you the extended life of both batteries. I swap them out as I charge them meaning that I have the grip battery as my first, then when it's time to charge it I put the one in the camera in the grip and charge the depleted battery and put it in the camera when it's charged. Thereby rotating the batteries out each time.
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No, you use two! A 100% improvement over your standard setup, and it should easily give you 1500+ shots before having to change your battery. I love mine!
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the grip works great.leave the battery in your camera and a put the second battery of the same type in the grip. It does double your shooting . Tom
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You can put 2 batteries on the grip but The grip use one battery at the time and when this battery is power empty the grip uses the other battery. The grip has no switch. The grip is functional with 1 battery if you want. I have big hands and the grip is perfect to have my camera in my hands, ita feel better holding the camera with the grip on. You need a charger for each battery if you want to charge the 2 batteries at the same time. I charge one first and then the other because i have just one charger.
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In can use 1 or 2 batterys. There is no switches or anything. If you put in 2 batterys is just will drain one the start on the next.That will give you much longer shooting. On the D3100 you can take 550 shot on one battery. With two you get 2x550. That is the purpose of this grip. It also make shooting in portrait much better. I hope this helped.
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I can't, actually, but the batteries appear to be the same as the Nikon OEM as far as strength. The grip holds two (or six AA) and, fully charged, the power lasts a surprisingly long time. Anecdotally, I've used the camera for a week-long vacation and 1000-1200 shots (mostly without flash) without requiring a recharge - or even being close. I seem to recall that Nikon rates their battery for close to 1000 shots and since the grip requires no power of its own, doubling that is not out of the question.
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I use the same bracket on my D800, and it works perfectly. Battery, card and remote access are not hindered. Its not too small, I actually like the size better than the Kirk........
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I think the D7100 battery grip only holds one and you also have the battery in the body of the camera which makes it two.
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Nikon uses one battery in the grip and one in the body of the camera. Canon puts both in the grip, which is arguably better. Still, as long as you charge batteries frequently you won't find yourself taking the grip off to change the body battery often.
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The batteries work great with my D3200, had them for about a month now with no problems. Glad I got them
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The grip attaches to the bottom of the camera. The camera body retains it's own battery and the grip holds a second. The grip will take either a duplicate of the D7100 Nikon battery or a multiple AA batteries by switching out the battery sled. With both batteries inserted, your battery life will essentially double. Now, the grip is not perfect. Mine, at times, looses connection with the camera. But, for the cost, you do get an extended grip and the means to shoot vertical with the extra shutter button.
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All I can say is that I have used EN-EL18s in my D3s and these batteries (I have two) are as good or better in my D800E. Also, they extended the shooting in my D800E from 300 to 1300+ shots without a battery replacement.Hope this helps.Wade
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The short answer is no. This grip allows only one Nikon rechargeable battery, but can also accept AA batteries with the included cartridge. However, you can also use one Nikon battery in the camera body as well as the battery grip, effectively giving you two batteries. It gets a little hard to change the one in the camera body, you must first remove the grip. Nikons error in my opinion.
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Yes, you sure can. You can even run your D800 from disposable AA Energizers if you want. As long as there is a charge in either battery location, the camera will keep on shooting.