Battery Grip top, Battery Kit flop

Once mounted on the camera which blends not only by the materials forth perfectly with the two cameras. The ergonomics is considerably improved by the battery grip.

This is especially important if the mounted lens is heavy. The Nikon 18-200 VR for example, is thus very comfortable to hold. The handle if you will then use a heavy telephoto zoom a compulsory event.

In a small standard lens as the 35 / 1.8 or the 18-55 Kitobjektiven the handle makes contrast only makes sense if you often shoot portrait. Here the camera is then almost in his hand as usual in landscape mode.

For this I ansich 5 stars.

But with this kit here I draw again from 2 star.

Why? Finally, you can take the EN-EL4a achieve the full 8 frames per second at last?

Quite simply, this is also much, much cheaper.

For this purpose, you simply buy at Amazon 8 Eneloop batteries and one (or 2) Chargers for NiMH AA batteries, and you (as Obtober 2009) saved loose 150 euros.

If you buy the same 16 battery, you still on top a loaded reserve ready always.
In addition to batteries still need anyway most of the usual external flash units.

Eneloop dehalb because they are contrary to normal NiMh batteries very little self-discharge.
Approximately 15% in one year.

Who squints more on the capacity of the batteries, should instead take real high capacity batteries.
But be careful, here is often lied to a trooper.