| Joined: | Thu Apr 12th, 2012 |
| Location: | Denham, United Kingdom |
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Could we sum that up by saying you are sitting on an aluminium (supposedly sterile) perch (fence)! LOL
The financial implications of serious photography are high, nothing is cheap, I need more, better batteries for my D3 but not paying £900 for half a dozen new Nikon ones. For my winter night time photography I am planning a golf trolley power pack. Almost zero cost and far more power and reliability.
It doesn't stop with the cards and batteries, the best lenses are extremely expensive. I have tried to collect a reasonable range of good old lenses which do the job well, they have limitations and snags but I find workarounds and accept the limitations.
One thing I have accepted is, birding lenses are way beyond my means, I try to cover a wide range of photography so I have decided to pass on birding beyond 300mm on DX.
Pretty much says it really, I am happy with the D4 for now but batteries are stupidly expensive. I have a third party one and hopefully now that I have sorted out the standby delay (Previous owner had set it to 10 minutes which I misread as 10 seconds!) that will perform as expected and I will consider another one. The D3 has an external power socket but the D4 and D5, despite using the same mains power unit require a battery compartment adaptor, at around £160. I did think I had found a source of third party EN-EL4a batteries but it turns out they aren't available any more. I have sufficient for now so I'll not bother looking further.