D70 battery compatible with D200?

[insanefireman]

About to order D200 and am not sure if I need to order new batteries. I have a decent stock of EN-EL3 from the D70. I see the D200 takes EN-EL3e. What is the difference

[Yi-P]

About to order D200 and am not sure if I need to order new batteries. I have a decent stock of EN-EL3 from the D70. I see the D200 takes EN-EL3e. What is the difference

Simple answer, NO


EN-EL3e has 3 pins, with +ve and -ve poles, and a "S" pin for the data chip inside the battery to keep track of shots taken on the charge and the D200 reads that pin to 'detect' the battery.

[insanefireman]

Quick! Thanks.

[Alex]

One caviat to that is if your D70 battery was recalled and replaced (as many have been) then it is likely it has been replaced with the EN3-EL3e, like mine has been. EN3-EL3e batteries are grey and have three pins vs black and two pins for EN3-EL3.

Alex

[johnd]

As already said, the D70 EN-EL3 battery has 2 pins while the D200 EN-EL3E has 3 pins. However the EN-EL3 will work on the D200. You just won't get battery readout information. The EN-EL3 is 1400mAh while the EN-EL3E is 1500mAh so you get a bit more life between recharges. Also, as Alex has said, Nikon recalled many EN-EL3 batteries and did a free replacement with EN-EL3E batteries. If you check their site, you should find an article with battery batch numbers that were recalled. This was about a year ago, but they still may honour the recall. Worth a try to swap for D200 compatible batteries for free.

Cheers
John

[Alex]

Hi John,

I believe EN-EL3 will NOT work on d200. If there is no 3rd pin, it will simply not power up d200.

Regards,

Alex

[johnd]

Hi Alex, you are absolutely correct. I thought I'd tried this in the past but obviously I hadn't. There is a different shaped guide slot cut in the 2 batteries that physically stops the EN-EL3 fitting into the D200, but both EN-EL3 and EN-EL3E fit into the D70.

Cheers
John

[whiz]

Yes, there was a bit of conjecture about this until someone taped up the center contact on his EN-EL3E, and his D200 wouldn't power up.
Conjecture ends.