I agree. I originally bought the vertical grip for my A1 hoping for
both better ergonomics and increased battery capacity. What I found is
that I'm like Moose. I've never really had any problems with simply
turning the camera. I didn't like the size and weight of the grip nor
did I like having to change my grip and hunt for the shutter button. As
to battery life I found it more practical to use two batteries one at a
time. You get the same battery life whether used one at a time or two
at a time. But, if you're at an event or somewhere there's AC power
available you can put the first battery on recharge as soon as you
switch to the second. Granted, you may avoid the interruption of a
battery change but that's not a problem, especially if you time your
battery change for an opportune moment without waiting until it's
completely exhausted.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Ian Nichols wrote:
>> I've never really had any problem with holding a camera in portrait
>> format, film or digital, so the extra release button & dials on the
>> new HLD-4 seemed like something I'd be unlikely to use.
> If you're weird, I'm at least halfway there.
>
> Aside from the other issues that have some folks now rolling their
> eyes... I too have never found any difficulty in taking portrait format
> shots by simply turning the camera and keeping my fingers in their
> normal positions for their usual picture taking functions. Feels
> perfectly natural.
>
> Yes, I have used a camera (non-Oy) with add-on battery box cum auxiliary
> control box for vertical format, although only for a few days. Hated the
> add-on box aspect of it. All it did from my experience was make the
> camera bigger, heavier and clumsier.
>
> Moose
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