It is defenitely worth it. It is very usefull if you whoot portrait and as others said you can tell the camera to draw first the grip battery, then the camera battery, or the contrary or both at the same time.
You can check each battrey status in the menu (not directly on the camera) but remember the K10D still has the problem (although a lot less) of the ist-D : it will show full batery and 5 minutes later display an empty battery ... Also worth mentionning is that the shutter release is a lot better designed than on the ist-d grip: you will not (well I do never) trigger the vertical shutter release "by accident" when holding the camera in landscape mode. It happened a lot with the ist-D but not with the K10D. As a matter of fact I do never dactivate the second shutter release. As the K10D is not a very lightweight camera, I sometimes feel like the grip is too heavy although when I do not use it, my little finger has nowhere to grip on the camera. The thing is, in this case, I just remove the battery from the grip and the whole thing is a lot lighter and I can still use the vertical release. You could use no battery in the camera and one in the grip if that suits you better. Pay attention not to lose the rubber piece when you put the grip on or off. I really can't find any negative to this grip. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- 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.
