Re: Cheap battery grip
On 12/22/2009 6:32 PM, William Robb wrote: It's not just about battery life. Shoot a lot of verticlas and you will learn very quickly to like the grip. I'd buy (and did buy) the Pentax one on general principals, but the price difference isn't as great here, either. William Robb On the other side, my K-7 and Galia's K10D barely fit together into my bag. Since I don't want to buy another bag we get to save the money and we also shoot without grips... The killer feature for the grip is vertical shooting with 0.5 kg of flash attached for, say, 2 hours. Your wrist will thank you for not forcing it to hold the camera vertically without the grip. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Cheap battery grip
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:39:02 -0600 Bob Sullivan wrote: > I question buying one for the K-7. Battery life is good. Battery > depletion is a soft failure. And a spare battery is a lot smaller > than the grip. For me the K7 must have the grip or the unit is clumsily small in my hands. sadly efforts to acquire them keep getting diverted to dentists and auto repair Bran -- "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Cheap battery grip
What Bill said. What's more, the camera fits my hand much better when equipped with a wrist strap and the battery grip. I wouldn't want to shoot without it. Paul On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:32 AM, William Robb wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan" > Subject: Re: Cheap battery grip > > > >> I question buying one for the K-7. Battery life is good. Battery >> depletion is a soft failure. And a spare battery is a lot smaller >> than the grip. > > It's not just about battery life. Shoot a lot of verticlas and you will learn > very quickly to like the grip. I'd buy (and did buy) the Pentax one on > general principals, but the price difference isn't as great here, either. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Cheap battery grip
- Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: Cheap battery grip I question buying one for the K-7. Battery life is good. Battery depletion is a soft failure. And a spare battery is a lot smaller than the grip. It's not just about battery life. Shoot a lot of verticlas and you will learn very quickly to like the grip. I'd buy (and did buy) the Pentax one on general principals, but the price difference isn't as great here, either. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Cheap battery grip
I think it's the tooling that costs a lot. Once you've got the molds for the plastic, it's cheap. After owning a K20 for 1+ years, I bought one of the 3rd party grips. I made sure to get one with the wheel on the vertical release as some did not have this feature. It works well for bigger lenses and it's light, but still adds bulk to what you must carry around. I question buying one for the K-7. Battery life is good. Battery depletion is a soft failure. And a spare battery is a lot smaller than the grip. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, eckinator wrote: > IIRC this also went around in reference to a grip for the K10D or K20D > and someone believed it was the company making the grip for Pentax > that had done another production run... goes to show that R&D and > short life cycles are huge cost factors in this case, not materials & > labor. I'd still rather go Pentax > Cheers > Ecke > > 2009/12/22 SV Hovland : >> http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.31967 >> >> First of all it is interesting to see how cheap it is possible to >> manufacture this for and send it around the world. I can buy 7 of these >> including postage from Hong Kong to Norway cheaper than one single original >> Pentax grip bought locally. It has of course unknown quality, but I still >> think it will have some impact on the sales for Pentax, at least in Norway. >> >> >> Stig Vidar Hovland >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Cheap battery grip
IIRC this also went around in reference to a grip for the K10D or K20D and someone believed it was the company making the grip for Pentax that had done another production run... goes to show that R&D and short life cycles are huge cost factors in this case, not materials & labor. I'd still rather go Pentax Cheers Ecke 2009/12/22 SV Hovland : > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.31967 > > First of all it is interesting to see how cheap it is possible to manufacture > this for and send it around the world. I can buy 7 of these including postage > from Hong Kong to Norway cheaper than one single original Pentax grip bought > locally. It has of course unknown quality, but I still think it will have > some impact on the sales for Pentax, at least in Norway. > > > Stig Vidar Hovland > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Cheap battery grip
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.31967 First of all it is interesting to see how cheap it is possible to manufacture this for and send it around the world. I can buy 7 of these including postage from Hong Kong to Norway cheaper than one single original Pentax grip bought locally. It has of course unknown quality, but I still think it will have some impact on the sales for Pentax, at least in Norway. Stig Vidar Hovland -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
