Battery grip, how much

How much is the battery grip for the D200? I have not seen any prices yet.

Mine was $169...and I love it!

MDS

PC Connection had been selling them for 149.00.

They are In Stock at PC Connection (149.95) as of 8:20 pm.

Bought mine there too. that's the cheapest online. Love the grip!
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$169 is average, low is $149.

I have two en-el3e batteries, so the Grip NEVER leaves my D200.

It makes the Camera that much better in handling, and I get better battery performance when using the Grip with Two Batteries.
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I paid $169 + tax at Samy's in Los Angeles.

I might have found it cheaper, but I was able to handle it and I like it a lot.

However, I do take it off my camera when I travel, since it adds a considerable amount of weight and size to the D200. One of my personal points of interest for the D200 was the much lower weight and size compared to my D1x.

You'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

cmoefc said:

You'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

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Are you left-eyed or right-eyed? Left-handed or right-handed?

I'm left-eyed and left-handed, and the grip is considerably less
than cool. It means I can under no circumstances ever shoot
one-handed anymore. That's because it makes the camera too
heavy for my right hand to hold the camera by itself, and if I grab
it with my left, then the shutter release is in the wrong place.

It's also danged difficult using my left eye (which I must do) to
look through the viewfinder with. This is a problem anyway, but
the grip could have corrected the problem, yet doesn't. When doing
portraits, I find it important to have one eye making eye contact
with the model, and that's extremely difficult with this set-up.

Don't believe me? Here, try this:

I challenge all you double-righties to try shooting where you
grab the camera mainly with your left hand and use only your left eye
for the viewfinder. The only thing that even half works is shooting
upside down--and as you'll see, it's still a halfassed solution.

The depressing thing is that Nikon could easily have made the D200
a wonderful camera for us double-lefties, merely by issuing an
alternate, left-oriented grip--but they didn't, and, virtually
certainly, never shall. It's a passive form of sinister discrimination
that's just one more slap in the face that we lefties get smacked
with every day of our shortened lives.

What's particularly enfuriating about the grip problem is that
they could have fixed this crippling state of affairs trivially easily
and been heroes, but they didn't. Now who's the sinister one, eh?

I know, I know: next I'll be complaining about the fact that the number
line with its negatives on the left and positives on the right should
accord with the exposure meter's currently-bassackward layout,
misdesigned by intent, or that lefty-loosey, righty-tighty ought
to apply to Nikon, too, or that if you toggle up the image review
numbers should go up not down.

But I recognize how Nikon intentionally do everything enfuriatingly
wrong from the perspective of the Western world for seemingly
no other reason than to exasperate us.(j/k) Still, making the grip
available for double-righties only was the last straw in a long
history of gratuitous inconveniences out of Nikon. :-(

--tom