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I have the A7rii and 4 batteries. The batteries have incredibly short life, but I haven't used the camera for a full day in the field yet. I plan to do a hike and want to take minimal gear. Any suggestion as to how many batteries I should take for a full day of shooting? I can easily shoot 1300 pictures in a day and am wondering if I should just take my Canon. But why have a $3100 camera I can't use???

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There are some tricks about saving batterie live

1 is to switch off all wire less function (Airplanemodus)

2 if you use the EVF only switch off the lcd display in the menus (you can root it to a function button)

3 you can turn the display quality to standard

4 switch off ibis if not needed

5 switch off the camera if not needed

 

maybe other users have also useful tricks?

 

i would take all 4 batteries

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I have two Watson batteries that worked for a while but have stopped being recognised by the camera and now cannot be charged either. So I would ONLY stick with genuine batteries. I've always had problems with third party batteries, even for my Canons - it's just not worth trying to save money in this area in my opinion.

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