joelconner wrote:
It's not going to have a great battery life. But, I use the ovf about 90% of the time with the LCD turned off, and it will last me quite a while. At the last wedding it lasted the full day without needing to be changed at all (10 hours...300ish frames shot). I turn it off after I have finished my shots...no so much to save battery life but because the re-start lag when it has gone to sleep is much worse than we just flipping the power switch back on.
There are fairly cheap off-brand batteries, and they work very well. I have two extra batteries along with the original...Show more →
Slightly bizarrely, the OVF uses more power than the EVF. The reason is that the OVF heads up display needs to be far brighter to stand out against the light coming through the window whereas the EVF is projected on to black.
Ian Boys wrote:
Slightly bizarrely, the OVF uses more power than the EVF. The reason is that the OVF heads up display needs to be far brighter to stand out against the light coming through the window whereas the EVF is projected on to black.
