Many have noted that Fuji S5’s NP-150 battery is externally the same as the Nikon EN-EL3e. This of course makes sense since the Fuji S5 is a customized Nikon D200 body. However, the two batteries are not compatible as they output different voltages and have a different chip on board. If you try to place the Fuji in the Nikon camera or vice-versa, the cameras won’t work.<\/p>\n
The chargers on the other hand look identical, and have the exact same output specifications, so some have said the two are compatible. That is, you can use a Nikon MH-18a charger with the Fuji NP-150 battery and\/or the Fuji BC-150 charger with the Nikon EN-EL3e battery.\u00a0 If you insert the other manufacturer’s battery in the opposing unit, they do in fact appear to charge.<\/p>\n
So, the question is, is this a good idea?<\/p>\n
After a conversation with Steve, a very friendly and helpful rep at at Fuji Pro Repair who verified this for me, the answer is no, you should not interchangeably use the two chargers<\/strong>. Apparently because of the difference in chipping of the two, you will damage either the battery or the charger.<\/p>\n Some claim to have successfully interchanged the two chargers, however this is discouraged by Fuji and they specifically say could damage your equipment<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n “puddleduck<\/a>” (aka Andy) at DPReview<\/a> indicates that he has never<\/strong> actually used the Fuji charger in all the years he’s had the S5. In fact he’s never opened the package and only used a Nikon charger and it has always functioned correctly. Anecdotally speaking, it sounds like the people at Fuji are just being cautious.<\/p>\n I guess each will have to make their own decision here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many have noted that Fuji S5’s NP-150 battery is externally the same as the Nikon EN-EL3e. This of course makes sense since the Fuji S5 is a customized Nikon D200 body. However, the two batteries are not compatible as they output different voltages and have a different chip on board. If you try to place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}