Church Wall, 2003 -- Canon 300D Rebel & EF 80-200mm f2.8L.
I had two third party batteries I bought when I had the NEX-5 and never used them on the new NEX-5N since the battery life has improved quite a bit on this new camera and never exhausted it in any one take. Today I just tried them on the NEX-5N and the camera complained about Incompatible Battery error. Frankly I was a little pissed off. Like what Panasonic did with their chipped batteries, this is just pure greed. If they price their batteries at reasonable level, few would buy third party batteries.
I bought a genuine Sony NP-FW50 battery from Amazon which is sold as being for the NEX 5 - when installed in a NEX 5N I got the same message as you.
ReplyDeleteI emailed Sony support and they denied there is an issue!
@Paul: I would be careful about the battery you bought. Make sure it's genuine. I used the one that came with the NEX-5 on the 5N and it worked fine. There are lots of counterfeits out there that are hard to distinguish from real. If I wanted to buy an OEM battery, I would buy it from a reputable local shop.
ReplyDeleteI bought it from Amazon themselves rather than 3rd party seller.
ReplyDeleteIf you are right - and it does look to me that you are - then Amazon themselves are selling fake batteries.
It does seem the most likely reason. I guess either buy actual 3rd party and save money or buy from the Sony shop direct.
I had the same issue, bought two Pisen spare battery for my NEX-5k and worked great, but getting the incompatible error message with my NEX-5n. Shame on Sony.
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