I couldn't live without the battery grip. My typical virtual tour job is about 400 exposures and quite a bit of checking histograms. And I have to use the wireless remote since my f13 exposures are typically one second or thereabouts. I carry minimal equipmet the camera, the DA*16-50, my tripod with the pan head an a bubble leve. My goal is two hours per shoot. So with the grip I finish with one set of batteries and my remote is always at hand. I'm doing three or four a week these days. I love my battery grip! Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> > On Dec 28, 2008, at 09:01 , John Sessoms wrote: > > > From: Joseph McAllister > >> Nice review. I surmise he did not actually have the battery grip > >> for his testing ("there is an optional battery > >> grip."). > >> No review I've ever read mention much about the grip, other than > >> the occasional mention that it has a second set of controls "for > >> shooting verticals." > >> For me, one of the important features of the BG-2 grip besides > >> having a second battery is that it carries the IR remote and a > >> spare SD card in nicely designed slots. In some cases, like with > >> the 18-250mm lens, this makes carrying anything more than the > >> camera and tripod unnecessary. > > > > Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! > > > > I've been trying to figure out what the &^*# I did with that %...@$&& > > remote for six months. Every time I opened my camera bag, there was > > the empty box in the little mesh pocket accusing me. > > > Jeeez, John. It only took me a month to figure out where it was. > > So that would not happen again, and so it would be available for my > K100 if I needed it, I put it in a little pocket in my camera bag. > > Of course, you know what happened to that! > > Now it's replacement is back in the BG-2 grip. I still have to buy > another, for the other BG-2 grip. And sell the K100. It ought to be > worth about $78.00 nowadays. > > :-( > > Joseph McAllister > Lots of gear, not much time > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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