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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

insanefireman wrote: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.

Quick! Thanks.

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

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

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

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

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.