John, I ordered 3 of these from Pentax on November 29th but they are still on back order from Japan with no ETA. The price I was quoted was $4.23 each plus $5 for shipping. I thought that these would be especially useful when shooting in cold weather as I can keep extras inside my jacket to stay warm and swap them quickly as necessary.
Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:01:36 -0500 (EST) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net (Pentax List) Subject: Battery holder for *ist-D battery grip Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone here found out how much Pentax want for these? I'm considering picking up a couple, for two reasons; it will make battery changing in the field almost instant, and it keeps the batteries organised (although I've got a couple of nice small boxes that hold 12 AA cells). The big drawback of the grip is that it makes changing the batteries in the camera a somewhat longer process. -------------------------------- End of pentax-discuss-d Digest V05 Issue #1 *******************************************