If you are shooting a lot of pictures at one time with your Nikon D90 or D80, MB-D80 might help you a lot. MB-D80 battery simulates many buttons of your Nikon D90 and D80 camera, gives you extended battery life and provides easy, comfort and stable holding of your camera in different orientations. Specially if you shoot portrait photographs most of the time, MB-D80 Battery Grip can make your life more easier. It will give you nice grip and provides stability for long day shooting.
MB-D80 runs on either one or two EN-EL3e batteries or six AA-size batteries. Nikon has listed AA-size alkaline, Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), lithium and nickel-manganese as a compatible batteries for MB-D80. However it is not compatible with non-Nikon EN-EL3e batteries.
The MB-D80 has a vertical shutter release button, main command dial (rear dial) and sub-command dial (front dial) as that of camera and it functions similar to the camera button. It also includes an AF-E lock button for Autofocus exposure lock. In addition, you can also lock shutter release button to prevent accidental press which is very good.
Nikon D90 or D80 itself has a nice grip around camera body but MB-D80 adds extra grip for your camera. It is made up of very high quality materials from Nikon products and it feels solid and sturdy with your camera.
Even if it has lots of features and advantages of using it, some people are complaining about softness of shutter release button on MB-D80 grip. If you are more used to with camera shutter button, you may feel shutter release button on MB-D80 is more soft than real camera button and can have chance of pressing it all the way down when you try to press only halfway down for Autofocus. But I am sure you will be used to with it once you start using it.
Nikon D90 with MB-D80 Multi-Power Battery Pack
Some people think it looks ugly with their camera and they don’t want to use it. But personally I think it adds lots of benefits giving extra battery life and emergency backup for long day shooting till your next recharge and worth to spend $138 and it look nice to me.
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This unit is built to save our lives specially on outdoor shootings. Very powerful unit and works elegantly. I will say must have device for busy photographers.