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So, I was looking around the interwebs about stuff and I saw an article saying if you use the EVF, it consumes less battery and live view is turned off for mirrorless cameras, is this true for all mirrorless cameras? Just was curious.

 

The EVF consumes less power than the rear display but not by much - liveview is on constantly for mirrorless cameras, if you turned off live view, you would have no viewfinder lol

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So, I was looking around the interwebs about stuff and I saw an article saying if you use the EVF, it consumes less battery and live view is turned off for mirrorless cameras, is this true for all mirrorless cameras? Just was curious.

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So, I was looking around the interwebs about stuff and I saw an article saying if you use the EVF, it consumes less battery and live view is turned off for mirrorless cameras, is this true for all mirrorless cameras? Just was curious.

 

The EVF consumes less power than the rear display but not by much - liveview is on constantly for mirrorless cameras, if you turned off live view, you would have no viewfinder lol

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The EVF consumes less power than the rear display but not by much - liveview is on constantly for mirrorless cameras, if you turned off live view, you would have no viewfinder lol

Hmm, ok thanks for the reply, was just wondering since the screen is turned off when I use my EVF

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Hmm, ok thanks for the reply, was just wondering since the screen is turned off when I use my EVF

 

but the EVF is just another screen so its just replacing one screen with another

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initally you are using a smaller screen say 2cm or whatever instead of 3 inch, so there's abit of battery saving, my guess is about 10% savings in power

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