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2026-05-05 Lumix GH3/GH4 Battery Grip

    For some reason battery grips have become common at my photo equipment source. We have written multiple reviews of both original and after-market battery grips for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. Now we acquired this one from Panasonic. It is for the Lumix GH3 (and evidentially will work for the GH4) a $1300 body-only camera that resembles a DSLR in both size and use. 

Using both the camera’s battery and this grip you can double your operational time (the literature expresses this in still exposures—1000 instead of 500).

    The box has a McBain’s price tag (an Edmonton AB camera store) that lists this accessory on line for $299. 










Notice the white block in the middle of the top, next to the tripod screw? And then notice the two wells on the right end of the top.
    That white cover protects the contacts the battery grip uses to contact the camera’s circuits. 
    You remove that cover—paying attention to the small tab—and place it in the deeper well. It can only fit one way. Likewise you remove the contact cover from the camera and place it in the other well. You can then screw the battery grip onto the camera.





    The battery compartment is at one end of the battery grip. The entire battery grip is dust proof and splash proof. 











There is a small rubber tab at the bottom right of the image. This is the access for the AC-power supply. Of course when the AC access tab is out, the battery grip is neither dust proof or splash proof.










On the other end there are buttons and a front and rear dial: Shutter / Exposure Compensation / ISO / WB / Fn1 / AF and AE LOCK
Both camera and battery grip use the DMW-BLF19E battery.












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