D50 Battery Grip

Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Orlando, FL

Does Nikon make a battery pack/grip for the D50? Will the D80 grip fit? Does anybody know?

Thanks!

Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 224

The answer is no and no.

Sorry for that.

Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 136 Location: Charlotte, NC

nikon may not make it................but you can buy them on ebay..........i have an ebay grip on my d70 and it works fine.

http://cgi.ebay.com/BATTERY-GRIP-FOR-NIKON-D50-D50S-2-EN-EL3-BATTERIES_W0QQitemZ120120860905QQihZ002QQcategoryZ122616QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Orlando, FL

awesome thank you. i had only looked on B&H and didn't see one.

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 12:45 pm

Third party grips have limited function compared to OEM. If Nikon wanted the D50 and the D70 to have a grip they would have made one. I guess the word is use at your own risk.

Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Norfolk, England

There is a D50 grip with shutter release but it is a botched IR remote which doesn't operate as a true shutter release and apparently has reliability problems. Personally I would give them a miss and invest in a couple of spare batteries, keep them charged and carry in your camera bag.

Part of the attraction of the D50 was it's compact size and light weight, why undo that with a shoddy grip?

Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 136 Location: Charlotte, NC

ChrisL wrote:

Third party grips have limited function compared to OEM. If Nikon wanted the D50 and the D70 to have a grip they would have made one. I guess the word is use at your own risk.

and if you were meant to have shoes you'd have been born with them?

the guy asked about a grip.............aftermarket is the only option.........his decision.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:53 pm

You are absolutely right, I just wanted to point out that the after-market ones have limitations as opposed to oem. I stand by my statement though, if Nikon wanted those bodies to have grips they would have made them.

Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Bromley, London, UK

if you live in the uk, not sure where else jessops have stores but jessops sell them here in the uk in their stores and are recommended to work well. i dont have one personally on my d50 but ive seen them im the nikon cabnet in their stores

Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Orlando, FL

thanks for all of the responses everyone i really appreciate it. i'll prob just buy another battery and keep it in my pocket or something. thanks!

Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 52

stephengoins wrote:

Does Nikon make a battery pack/grip for the D50? Will the D80 grip fit? Does anybody know?

Thanks!

As I know Konica has a very good battery which a couple of people use for Nikon D50.

Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 243 Location: Wiltshire, UK

stephengoins wrote:

thanks for all of the responses everyone i really appreciate it. i'll prob just buy another battery and keep it in my pocket or something. thanks!

I have a D50 with this battery grip:
http://www.digital-cameras.com/xpp-nikon_d50_battery_grip_hahnel_hn_d50__2168.html (although it didn't cost that much).

Good points:
1. Makes the camera a little more chunky and comfortable to hold.
2. You can put normal rechargeable batteries in the reserve battery holder
3. Makes people think you have D2H (only kidding).

Bad Points:
1. The two batteries tend to report to the camera that they are running low on power output, but when you take the grip off and put any one of the batteries into the normal slot, they are full power. This does get annoying sometimes.