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 A preference for the name brand battery October 26, 2007
Suzanne Saunders (Rocky Mountains USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I liked the price on amazon, so I bought this Nikon brand battery for my new Nikon D40x 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens. So far, so good. The battery charges fairly fast and lasts a long time.
I'm a firm believer in having at least one extra rechargeable battery for a digital camera. If you take a lot of pictures, you have a good chance of your battery running low while you're out and about. If you don't use the camera often, you might take it to a special occasion without realizing that the battery's getting low. In either case, having a spare fully charged battery will help you avoid the frustration of having a dead camera at the wrong time and place.
I'm okay with paying a few extra bucks for the Nikon branded battery, based on my experience with two "no-name" rechargeables I bought a few years ago for my Nikon Coolpix 7900 camera. The "no-names" cost less than the Nikon brand battery. They charged up and worked just fine at first, and I rotated all 3 batteries through the camera, with roughly equal amounts of use and recharge cycles for the batteries. All rechargeable batteries eventually lose their ability to hold a charge, after going through a number of charge/discharge cycles. In the case of the Coolpix camera, the original Nikon battery outlasted both of the "no-name" generic batteries.
So based on my experience with those batteries, I'm sticking with the Nikon brand for the extra battery for my D40x, because I expect it to last through more charge/discharge cycles over its lifetime than a generic (and cheaper) equivalent battery.
 BUY THE NIKON BAG KIT INSTEAD May 23, 2007
J. B. Gauthier
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a spare battery for your D40, I recommend you purchase the Nikon accessory kit instead (comes with a great Nikon camera bag, spare battery identical to this one and a photo guide). It barely costs more than this battery alone and you will get the bag for almost nothing.
New battery fast availability April 3, 2007
Susana Loaiza Fraustro (Monterrey, NL Mexico)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This battery just came out, so it was great to find it and at a very good price, very fast shipping.
 Reliable and long-lasting August 31, 2007
Terry R. Luedecke (Valley Village, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It charges in less than 90 minutes. It can process over 250 pictures at the highest resolution.
good, but expensive February 9, 2008
l2 (California)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a good, reliable battery that last a long time. However, it is expensive. Amazon does sell 3rd party compatible batteries for 1/2 or even 1/3 the price that seem to work just as well. Just search for "EN-EL9".
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