Any chance of an updated "15D" battery on Monday (with the Z6 III)?: Nikon Z Mirrorless Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review (2024)

f we look back the gen 1 bodies bought the 15B for USB charging, then the Z II's bought the 15C for power delivery function, but also improved battery life in the cameras (higher wattage). Wonder if there wil lbe a 15D battery that gets us even more shots per charge especially in the Zf and Z8.

I'm also thinking if the Z6 III is going to be more a video camera (or at least more heavily geared towards video shooters that is) that they might want to release a higher-wattage battery....

Another thought (and somewhat separate) would be a battery pack for the vertical grips that would give the cameras a big boost in battery life, so for example, give Z8 users something like 1000 shots per charge perhaps, and Z6/Z7 shooters double or triple the battery life as well as the current grips and battery options.

Just something I was thinking about....

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I believe the Z5 was the first to come with an EN-EL15C battery.

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So first, shots per charge isn't really a good metric with ml. It's more screen time on.

Beyond that, I don't expect a d version yet, unless the cs still left room on the table. Battery tech isn't improving rapidly, and I'd be shocked if they had a newer version since the c is pretty new as well.

PLShooter wrote:

Z5 came with an EN-EL15C battery.

While technically true, The Z5 and Z II's were release close enough that I would consider it to be the same batch of releases so to speak (released about 3 months apart).

ghostfox_1 wrote:

So first, shots per charge isn't really a good metric with ml. It's more screen time on.

Beyond that, I don't expect a d version yet, unless the cs still left room on the table. Battery tech isn't improving rapidly, and I'd be shocked if they had a newer version since the c is pretty new as well.

Well ,the C isn't all that new, and the B battery was short lived (still works obviously in the current camreas but it's shelf life was much shorter and limited mostly to cameras shipped 2018 through 2020).

I mean I guess maybe it isn't time for one yet and that battery tech isn't changing that fast, but even if they could find a way to push a few more milliamps into the battery it would help. It seems even adding the some 20% made a reasonable difference in terms of overall battery life in general.

But where I was mostly coming from wit hthe idea of a new 15D battery and higher capacity would be since the Z6 III is likely to be a more popular video camera than the Z8 is (partially due to its expected price point) and so those people might expect better battery life. I mean with the move to the Expeed 7 and not using a high-end sensor like the stacked sensor, they might be able to rebalance things so the overall battery life is better (as a stacked sensor may require more juice than a standard non-stacked BSI sensor, and maybe one reason they want to stick with a BSI sensor... but that's a separate discussion).

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