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Drawbacks of the Sony a7

Drawbacks of the Sony a7

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Drawbacks of the Sony a7

>> Now Rob, we've established that the battery life on these is average with mirrorless cameras, which means if you're used to DSLRs, or turning off the live view monitor, not great by any standards. >> No, and 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 I forgot to mention that's actually a real big benefit here. >> Okay. >> Is that the actual viewfinder itself is an excellent OLED viewfinder. >> Okay. >> So in terms of actual black levels and stuff, it's great. But if, you know, in combination it uses 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 back into that pro and con. You mentioned that the MPEG-4 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 very…

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