Finally, proof that the internal commander mode was flakier than a good croissant.
I can’t find much to fault in the third party battery wars. I owned a few in D2X days, and they all died of various causes at about 1 year or so, where the Nikon batteries soldiered on heartily. I also know of several people who had camera damage or charger damage (in two cases, fires) with third party batteries. The system complexity of today’s cameras is so massive that the odds are against smooth integration of third party batteries.
For really casual shooters, it may not matter much because they wouldn’t stress the system, but the damage that I know of occurred with relatively casual shooters. The difference in battery life alone equalizes the costs.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.