$120 for an extra battery seems steep, but hopefully will provide extra capacity in the field. With the current Sony NP-FZ100 I always get a full day of landscape shooting out of one (usually 1.5 days), so I only carried one additional per camera as backup.
As noted elsewhere, the grip has been made a bit bigger to accommodate this slightly larger battery. In DPR’s review they noted:
"The new, larger battery, which sits longitudinally down the grip, rather than the transverse arrangement of the previous design, means the camera's grip has been reworked. It's a subtle change, but the lip around the top of the handgrip is slightly more prominent and the recess on the mount side of the grip, where your fingertips rest, has been reshaped.
Sony stressed that it's not the same as the a1 II/a9 III design (the shutter button isn't at nearly so steep an angle, for a start), but it seems more comfortable than even the recent a7 V's shape.
$120 for an extra battery seems steep, but hopefully will provide extra capacity in the field. With the current Sony NP-FZ100 I always get a full day of landscape shooting out of one (usually 1.5 days), so I only carried one additional per camera as backup.
$120 for an extra battery seems steep, but hopefully will provide extra capacity in the field. With the current Sony NP-FZ100 I always get a full day of landscape shooting out of one (usually 1.5 days), so I only carried one additional per camera as backup.
@gdanmitchell@ You’ve mentioned before that you’ve been considering a move to Sony from your Canon DSLR - are you likely going for the A7RVI? Wondering if you will appreciate the improved dynamic range in your work compared to your Canon - 2.7 stops more DR at base ISO:
[the graph will look very similar to that of the A7V, since Sony rates both as 16 stops using mechanical shutter and using the new DGO dual ISO gain combining]
May 15, 2026 at 06:40 PM
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