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A7RV Camera going crazy


Jesse Meza
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Well the video file is to large to download for everyone to see. But I was taking pictures and the functional menu started going crazy. It was like I had my finger on direction button and it was moving really fast.  It happened with main menu as well. Also I was not able to change any of my exposure settings like apurture, ISO and shutter speed. Once I removed the battery grip it seemed to work fine. The battery grip that use is the Mieke battery grip. I use it for my A7IV camera. That also had the same problem as well. So I’m trying to figure out if it’s the camera or the battery grip. Let me know. 

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