Batteries??

[MLWolfe]

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???

[Gilgenberg]

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

[Broncos_CA]

I would suggest you return the camera, that is, if you even bought one? You don't deserve it.

[Guest all8]

Guess you need around 8 batteries for 1300 shots. Right?

[frederico]

I would suggest you return the camera, that is, if you even bought one? You don't deserve it.

Hope there is a dislike button here

[mkg3]

Speaking of extra batteries, do non-Sony batteries work on a7r2?

 

Wondering if there is a electronic handshake between the camera and battery that prevents 3rd party batteries.

 

Thanks in advance.

[bdp]

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.

[Golem]

Hope there is a dislike button here

I looked up all his posts. His expertise

is apparently limited to what he reads,

and as someone mentioned above, he

seems to post almost verbatim from

what he's been reading.

 

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[sstevenson]

I saw a drastic battery life increase on my a7 models after turning on airplane mode. If you're not using wifi, no reason to have it active all the time.

[Gilgenberg]

i have no problems with 3rd party batteries on A7

i use a external charger..the one from my nex-7 but you can get 

3rd pary bateries + charger for cheap