On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 10:12:23AM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > > >For some reason the Canon grips for their digital bodies are > >positively huge. The 10D's grip is about twice as large as the D- > >BG1 for the D. > > That's because the batteries are, relatively speaking, quite large. > It takes that much room to hold two side by side. Minolta's grip for > the Maxxum 7D is about the same, and Nikon's for the D100 is also > about the same. The Minolta grip is the only one I've worked with > that comes with a holder and lets you run the camera on 6 AA cells > in a pinch. I thought that was a great idea. > > Bob
One of the thing I really like about the D-BG1 grip for the D is that the batteries are mounted in a clip. That way, if you have a second clip, it takes very little time to swap batteries (even if, like me, you turn the camera off while changing batteries). I also like the fact that the batteries in the grip are in addition to the batteries in the camera. This saved my bacon the other day, when I forgot to check that the camera really had finished writing to the CF card (just because the main switch is "OFF" doesn't mean the camera has turned off ...) before swapping batteries in the grip. Fortunately I still had batteries in the camera, so it was able to complete the write even with no batteries in the grip.
