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• Aston said:
  

  I owned several grips from different brands (mainly Canon and Minolta). It was either to be able to shot more pictures, either to shot. . . vertically. This one seems to be unbeatable. First, all the functions you need are really under your (at least mines) fingers. Second, it is the first time, while shooting vertically with my camera (here a Sony Alpha 700) that I feel so comfortable that I could forget that I am not shooting horizontally.

  -February 7th, 2010 at 11:32 am
• Annissa said:
  

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  This is a cool piece to have. If you take a lot of photos, especially lots of portraits, this can seriously make things easier on you. Of course, it takes some getting used to using the new shutter button for the portrait shots. This grip allows you to hold two batteries in place of one, plus it gives you a bunch of the controls you’d use with your thumb were you shooting in landscape orientation. That’s a great bonus and touch. The only gripe comes from whether or not this unit drains the batteries even when the camera is off. It has its own power switch, which makes me wonder if that’s the case. I haven’t tested it thoroughly for that, however it seems to be the way things are turning out. Fortunately it isn’t a major amount of drain (1%-3% from the meter) in the course of a day or so, but it really shouldn’t be that way in the first place. A simple solution, mind you, is to turn off the power of the grip — which won’t affect the main body from being able to use the batteries. Drain aside, this is an awesome addition to the A700 camera, and will prove invaluable to anyone that shoots a wide variety of image types and styles.

  -February 7th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

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