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The recently announced battery grip for the A33/A55 and the Sony NEX-5 cameras is now available for purchase on eBay. It’s made by the taiwanese company Ownuser (Click here)
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Reminder: The grip does offer:
External Shutter release input
External AC power input
Camera shutter release output
tripod mount
use of two Lithium batteries and AA Battery (6A/8A)
IR output (!)
LInks to the original products pages of the company:
The battery grip for the A33/A55: http://www.ownuser.com.tw/mig_sa55.html
The battery grip for the Sony NEX: http://www.ownuser.com.tw/mig_snx5.html
Once you have it and tested it let us know what you think about! Thanks!
24 Responses
I’m speechless…
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nex3/5 is good for its small size.. no reason to add such a grip.. no mention its uglynesssssss… 🙂
Oh my God…I can’t decide which is uglier…the camera or the grip LOL…yikes…I’m sorry, I’m not a fanboy of this horrible camera….
Nice. Though I’ll wait to the price drops to $30USD. $100+ is too overpriced IMO.
The NEX designer at Sony weeps tears of terror at the dark corner with trembling hands…
and our little beauty looked like a bad designed DSLR.. 😀
anyway, the website states “made in Taiwan”, not chinese..
China considers Taiwan to be chinese….
And for crying out loud, how difficult is it to put an extra battery in your pocket. If your want your compact to look like a SLR, just buy a SLR. It’s like those folders for iPads that come with an integrated keyboard.
looks pretty ugly, and makes the nex useless as a compacter-than-dslr-camera.
All mirrorless cameras are one big hoax. Miniaturization is a myth due to the lenses, flashes, viewfinders, etc. I tend to think, the idea was not to create a compact mirrorless camera, but to make the public believe that it is possible to create one. If you are a newbie in photography, an ordinary compact body will do. But if this is your serious hobby or profession, then you’ll have to hang heaps of accessories onto the small body. Well, small as it is, it doesn’t make any sense in terms of size with all the bells’n’whistles attached.
Tu cut it short, damn with the mirrorless toys, ladies & gentlemen. Go ahead for decent DSLRs (or DSLTs for that matter). Best regards.
the real mirrorless camera is calledarangefinder camera
what an ignorant comment. There are a bunch of folks who’re more than willing to lug less for same image quality. See backpackinglight.com. For hiking, landscape, and macro NEX is unbeatable.
What a pointless opinion. For an enthusiast really unbeatable is a normal DSLR. In all genres. And for a beginner it is really POCKET body that is unbeatable. The bunch of folks who recognize that is much more sizable than backpackinglight.com.
Contra you are not the market or the general consumer. I never carried my old DSLR around because it took up to much space in my messenger bag. Bought the NEX-5 and have been carrying it everywhere with me. It is also less conspicuous then my old DSLR. Venues wouldn’t allow me to take a DSLR in without a presspass. They allow my NEX-5 and it takes photos just as well as the DSLR (arguably better in lowlight).
IMO NEX-5 > ANY DSLR just cause I can bring it into places that don’t allow “professional” photography equipment.
Best Regards
Oh and I don’t understand this “NEX-5 is just as big as a DSLR” where it CLEARLY is smaller. The body of the NEX-5 is +50% smaller then most DSLRs. I don’t know what school you went to that taught you that x equals one half x. Lenses are the same size of course but it still is much smaller then the traditional DSLR.
Down with the traditional DSLR. Sony set camera design free!
hahahahaha- Looks like a piece of badly planned trash !
WTF?
> External Shutter release input
???
> Camera shutter release output
???
> IR output (!)
???
Please, show me WHERE.
That would be a neat trick as the NEX series from Sony doesn’t have a shutter….
ok, Chinese’ll buy it for their NEX
No they won’t.Don’t go trying to paint a broad brush like that, no one in their right mind will buy that thing.
Ugly. Why didn’t they keep with the svelte design aesthetic of the NEX? A grip should look like a seamless extension of the camera, not a fat, bloated lip.
Disgusting, to say the least!!
I have a feeling this’ll be the “Mars Needs Moms” of camera accessories. And why is there no aperture/shutter dial/buttons on the a55/a33 grip? This is a real waste.
I’d attach a beercan to crown it all. Would be a nice set.