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Drawbacks of the Sony Alpha a7

Drawbacks of the Sony Alpha a7

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Drawbacks of the Sony Alpha a7

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- Now Rob, we've established that the battery life on these is average with mirrorless cameras. Which means, if you're used to DSLR's or turning off the live view monitor, not great, by any standards. - Now that's a good, important point because you are using the live view on the LCD a lot, you are going to drain more power. And there's actually one thing that I forgot to mention that's actually a real big benefit here. - [Rich] Okay. - Is that, the actual viewfinder itself is an excellent OLED viewfinder. - [Rob] Okay. - So in terms of actual black levels and stuff, it's great, but, you know, in combination they use a little bit more power than just the LCD viewfinder alone. - All right. Well, that part makes sense. Now beyond that, with other drawbacks, and this sort of falls into that pro and con. You mention that the MPEG4 recording format is very limited, recording a non-square pixel version of HD, while the AVCHD version, lots of flexibility. It just means, you need to have a…

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