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Posted: Mon May 24th, 2021 05:17
 
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Ian I agree about battery power 270 pixs on this shoot and as stated viewfinder went black at 20% but the spare battery in pocket back to 100%  for these last few shots at quite a high ISO in poor light. With two camera bodies and 6 batteries, I should get through most normal shoots for a retired 80 yr old photographer! I did miss my old 80-400mm lens on this shoot so I may trade in the 70-200 for one as plenty of very good deals going at present.

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Well if you decide to sell the 70-200 I may be interested 😉.but surely the 1.4x converter with the 70-200 would have done the job?



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Why do you need to get 3000shots out of a battery? I have never taken more than 500shots at any one event and always had a spare battery or two that were only were ever needed when I forgot to insert a freshly charge battery before the start of the event.

Whilst we might decry the '400 images' that mirrorless offer, in practical terms I've never had to change battery at a critical time ..so far.  

That said, there are moments when I say “this is a bit irritating”, “it's a shame”, “it would be better if”.  

The truth is it does take a step change in your thinking and modus operandi to switch to mirrorless.  If you are getting the results with your current equipmentwhy change?

Your desire/need/benefit to do so has to be clear ..and the equipment good enough to encourage you to persevere.

It may even need an epiphany to change an irritation into an advantage you are more comfortable with, like  


After retiring, I raged about teachers from the school opposite parking outside the front of my house all day, rather than use the school carpark. Not having a drive entrance at the front I liked to park my car there, rather than having to get it out of the garage at the rear of the property, every time I needed to just pop out for a few minutes.

It irritated the hell out of me.until we had some daytime burglaries in the street. Several neighbours houses were targeted, we fortunately escaped attention. 

The police said that their empty driveways could have been an indicator of people out at work.where cars outside our house might have made it more questionable.

From then onwards I was happy for people to park there (I even encouraged someone who wanted to park their daughters car for a month) . while we went out regularly for the day!  

I came to realise my car was safer away for vandalism and damage in the garage anyway any minor inconvenience was soon managed or forgotten.
The battery life stems from the days working as a press photographer where 2k+ shots in a shift was normal and having a camera that was able to do that without a battery change was great.
The other week while taking pics of two Red Kites displaying my friends Olympus m1 battery went flat, by the time he changed it the Kites had gone.
 




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The battery life stems from the days working as a press photographer where 2k+ shots in a shift was normal and having a camera that was able to do that without a battery change was great.
The other week while taking pics of two Red Kites displaying my friends Olympus m1 battery went flat, by the time he changed it the Kites had gone.
That's not good but really down to planning.  Like I said, you have to have a positive reason to go mirrorless and long battery life is never going to be top of its benefits. I find I am taking a lot less photos now a I am retired. The Sony A7 has only accumulated a total of 2400 actuations so far and I  am sure I've only had 3 cycles of my twin battery charger.so 400/battery including the chimping while learning it's menus.
It won't compete with a mirror camera battery but good enough for me.



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 "chimping" :lol:



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 Very pleased with Sony 100-400mm pin sharp and autofocus spot on I hope to have some flying pixs from it soon. First pix is only 25% of full-frame lens at 400mm

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 Looks like you have some back focus happening there!
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Duck!!!

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 Focus on the head and light poor 2500 ISO 1/1250 sec f5.6 fast shutter as I hoped they would take off for flight pix, no go!



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 You need to get some little people to act as duck chasers/scarers.
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 Talking of poor light.


12800 iso

(With 1% luminance noise reduction)


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 Looks good to me that ISO is out of this world!



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