Nikon Accessory Pack for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras 
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This is a great overall package to buy, especially if you are about to get your first Nikon DSLR camera. I just bought a Nikon D50 and I bought this with it because it seemed like it gave me the best value for my money (because of the deep discount Amazon.com has on it). The bag is sturdy and easily customizable to fit your gear any way you want it. You can fit your camera, two medium size lenses, a speedlight, and all the other essential things like batteries, memory cards, computer wires, etc. It has pockets on the front and side for small objects and another on the back suitable for your camera's manual.
The UV haze protection filter comes in a plastic case, and the battery has a plastic base (or terminal cover as NIkon calls it) that protects it when not in use (same cover included in the NIkon DSLR kits). Finally, the included Nikon School Guide to SLR Photography is a full color, well-written book that serves as a general introduction to SLR Photography (it includes information for film cameras as well). Perhaps one other thing that I would have liked to see in this accessory pack is protective covers for the camera LCD and/or a soft cloth for cleaning the camera lens.
For someone with more equipment a backpack or a bigger bag might be more suitable. However, for someone like myself, who's just getting into digital SLR photography, this bag and the included accessories are a perfect compliment to my Nikon camera.
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This is a great overall value. The bag is very high quality and the book it includes is very informative. Separately the battery would run about $35, the book about $8, the filter $15, and the bag at least $20. (These are estimates) You can see what a well priced deal this is. The bag, the book, and the battery are genuine Nikon, but the lens filter is not. The filter has "Precision 52mm UV Japan" written on it. A genuine Nikon filter would cost nearly $40. This one appears to be the same as the Quanteray filters. It's still high quality, installs nicely, and works great.
The bag itself has plenty of storage and is compact enought to go anywhere. It has nice heavy duty plastic feet to prevent 'nylon picking' when it is placed on, for example and among other things, concrete sidewalks.
Overall, I can't find a better deal to accompany my new D50 with the same quality. You will want to leave the filter on to protect the lens, the book is helpful, more so for beginners, and the battery is convenient but not necessary unless a lot of flash photography is needed. These batteries last forever! Good luck.
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How can it be a good deal if the estimated prices of each item add up well below the cost of the kit? The case would have to be much more than $20 since we know what the battery and filter cost separately.
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The battery, bag and book are fine, but the 52 mm UV filter does not fit on the 28-80mm lens--the one lens most commonly bundled with the Nikon D-50, which is the single most popular Nikon Digital SLR. So a kit which is being promoted as perfect for the beginner includes a filter which is useless for me. I feel like I wasted my money on this product because I thought the lenses were a universal size.
