How many batteries do you usually use to shoot a full wedding with the SONY a7r iii?

How many batteries do you usually use to shoot a full wedding with the SONY a7r iii?

oharing wrote in post #18610096
How many batteries do you usually use to shoot a full wedding with the SONY a7r iii?

You should probably consolidated all of your a7rIII questions into one thread...

But for a typical wedding, I've never used more than two batteries. I had to use a third battery once...Vietnamese wedding that started with a tea ceremony in the morning and had me shooting for over 14 hours. Wasabi makes third party batteries now and they're $30 cheaper than the Sony ones. But if you're going to shoot weddings, do yourself and your clients a service and use first party batteries. Third party batteries don't have as much capacity, and there's a risk of these things swelling and getting stuck in your cameras and screwing you in the middle of a wedding.

In terms of memory card...ideal world, UHS-II cards are what you should use. But they're pretty damn expensive for high capacity cards, and if you're shooting a wedding on an a7rIII, you'll want a 128gb card. I don't like switching cards in the middle of weddings, as that's when they get lost, or corrupted, or whatever.

I'm using a sandisk u3 card right now...95mb/s. It's fast enough that you'll never fill the buffer, but there are times when I have to wait for the buffer to clear. That's the downside to 42mp for weddings.

https://www.amazon.com …keywords=sandis​k+u3+128gb

In terms of adapters...right now the Sigma seems to be the one to get as they've enabled eye-AF across the frame via firmware. It's a constantly moving target though as metabones and Sigma are constantly improving their adapters.

Ideally though, for a wedding you'd want access to some native glass for lowlight shooting. I use adapted lenses when shooting lenses, but they don't work well when the lights turn off at the end of the reception.