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Targus TG-BGD40 Battery Grip for Nikon D40 Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very happy with this grip
Comment: Okay, I read all the reviews and was a little skeptical of this grip, but went ahead and purchased it. Yes, it will extend battery life, but battery life on the D40 is pretty good already, veritical shutter works but is IR, might make the camera easier to grip...

Hmmmmm...

So I get it in the mail and open it up: light plastic. Put it on the camera (easy cheesy). Grip it. Not sure I like it, feels a little weird. I take a few pics and put it away.

Get it out later that night, take a few more pics, try the vertical shutter, nothing too exciting there, but maybe I like the bigger feel after all...

Get my two high capacity batteries in the mail and put them in. Go out and shoot for a while. The grip has grown on me. I now love it.

* I really like the increased size from the grip. It is much more comfortable for me. This is my only camera, so for me my D40x is my high-end camera. Some people with bigger cameras like a D300 have a D40 as their travel camera. The whole advantage to them is the small size and light weight, so the grip would defeat the whole point. For the rest of us, the extra size and weight can be a plus.

* Extra battery life is a plus. Not a necissity, but a luxury I will enjoy.

* Veritcal shutter button. I thought this was more useful than most of the reviews I have read. It has all the weaknesses of an IR trigger, but note the reviews on the IR remote trigger (ML-L3 or something like that)are all great. Taking a hundred wedding photos in portrait mode would not be feasible, probably should not have a D40. But I can imagine scenarios where I am just taking a few easy to compose pics and it might come in handy.

In the end, I am really glad I got this grip.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great!!!
Comment: Just wanted to let people know about this item if they're considering buying one. I purchased my D40 over two years ago, and I shoot alot of kids sports, plays, family functions and the like. Last years I started looking around and found that Nikon didn't make anything for this camera. This year, after considering it again, I looked and found two or three companies that are making grips for the D40 crowd.
Each had decent reveiws, but the price of this grip lead me to try it out. I am normally a brand loyal kind of guy, but the recent economy is leading me to try some aftermarket stuff by reputable companies. I have bought Targus products before, and always found them to be well made.
Let me say, the grip works perfectly. I pulled it out of it's package, threw it on there, and installed the battery. Worked great.
Couple things you should be aware of. I bought this because I needed the battery capacity and because I wanted a larger area to hold onto as I have larger hands. I don't care about the shutter release for portrait cause I won't use it that way. However, since Nikon didn't ever want to sell a grip for the D40, there is NO way for the grip to trigger the shutter release EXCEPT through infrared. This means that you push the grips shutter release, and it will instatly focus and shoot. No half press for continuous focusing until you're ready. Also, you do have to take the battery do off for this to work, no problem for me. Stored it in a pocket in my lowpro bag with the hotshoe cover and other small items.
Finally, finish is decent. It is plastic, but I don't care, the black matches the D40 pretty well. This device is functional for someone needing a grip because they want more battery power and to make the D40 a little larger grip-wise.
Love it, and for $50, it was a great purchase. It balances my 28-70 f2.8 and Sigma 70-200 f2.8 very well.
Enjoy:)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great
Comment: This battery grip has lived up to it's promises. I bought this with two new, 1800mah(or whatever it is) batteries and it was a month before I had to recharge them, even then I was still at 67% power but I was about to go out of town for a few days and wanted to top them off. Though an amateur photographer I have two children so my camera is always out. I tend to shoot with a 1.8 50mm lens and try to avoid using the flash to get more natural light, however I do flash when necessary. So the battery power that I walk around with now is ample.

I have pretty big hands and the D40 was a little small to hold. That was my primary motivation for buying this product. My D40 was/is my first dive into the DSLR world so I didn't want to spend a fortune, knowing these grips were also available I went for it. The grip makes it a lot easier to hold the camera as well as bringing some of the weight back which helps keep my wrist from fatiguing.

The grip fight wonderfully on my first try, nice and snug to the camera body and the texture patterns match almost exactly. I wish it wasn't plastic and had the same rubber feel as the camera does but for $34.99 I wasn't really expecting that.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: NIKON D40 TARGUS BATTERY GRIP
Comment: Targus TG-BGD40 Battery Grip for Nikon D40 AH well let me start off by saying i dont like it much it feels to bulky not sturdy cheap not what i expected at all it feels bad it takes very little work getting on right till the end and you have to force one side in and screw it real tight which takes alot cause its too small its not comfortable when you have AA batteries which when you get to low it will let you take pics but it wont put them on the card or show you or even show the menu they could have completely outdone themselves if one person actually used this b4 shipping this is a terrible product i would not recommend it in less you where strapped for cash and really needed it it only works on single shot because nikon went and didn't put a communicator to the grip to tell the camera what to do it send in infra red beam out so you cant use the regular shutter release the only good part is it does do well with batteries nikon batteries and the shutter release oh another lil comment is the inferred led comes out on the front of the grip witch makes it hard to hold regularly sorry this was simple no periods

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Customer Rating:
Summary: This Product Is Awesome!!
Comment: Everything it was promised to be! And it does match up to the Nikon cameras as other reviews have mentioned, looks like and functions like it was a factory part of my Nikon D40X. Would highly recommend to all others.
Fast Delivery from DBROTH, great job thanks!

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