The first impression is very good, it's all clean packaged and bagged.
Looking at the handle but falls on already that the leather covering survives below the front control dial. Approximately a whole millimeter faces the just and on the site it will be solved probably slowly through contact with the forefinger over time.
When tightening it quickly becomes clear that the whole is not too tight or not is entirely verwindungsteif. The two mounting wheels must be fully taken slams, otherwise it wobbles properly. After that the side with the front control dial can but without much power forward about 1 - 2 millimeters apart. I have a feeling that the power strip is not in far enough so that the base does not lie flat there.
The functions themselves are at least given, but you must see how long there is proper contact when it comes down there to those described distortion.
Incidentally, he is too nice about one centimeter too wide, so that I have a suspicion that a counterpart for the D600 has been made with a different shell to match the D7100.
Overall, I am therefore rather disappointed with the part.
Addendum on 16:03.
A later bought Phottix counterpart wiggled just and additionally offered the discussed in forums and documented in Youtube phenomenon that the camera's LED flashes when you move the handle. But not only the LED lights up, but also the stabilizer of my Sigma 17-70mm DC OS HSM 2-8-4 start then each place. At least this grip was as wide as the camera, so that my above-mentioned theory of vice knitted D600 grip well confirmed.
Maybe I'm one more try with Meike or another 'producer' unless an original low crosses my path.
Addendum on 20:04:14
Meanwhile, I've been using for weeks the original. For about 196, - from Amazon - Warehouse Deals as impeccable and absolutely like new merchandise returns.
As different as day and night, no wobbling, loose contact, no twitching of the camera or the lens, equal better processing and material quality. Had the handle-reviewed not had the loose quirks, he would at least have the good price accordingly. Defect remains defective and he deserved no better grade.
For my D610 I'm doing an experiment again and have in the bay the Minadax magnesium handle cheap for any 43 - auctioned. Many writes here that he is descended from the model for the D800 and should therefore be widened. It has also been reported in forums about loose problems. Here's looking at me, and if it is so he goes away and is also replaced by an original. Understand, I do not do that whole thing, I had very good handles third-party for A200, A700, D80, D300s, D5100.
