the Mikey mk9 program for the 873 let's do it
align the battery connector by following the direction of arrow and press it
until here tic-tac hmm Chinese translation at its best I guess
so I picked this up from Amazon and it didn't say that it was compatible the a
7-3 but I read somewhere that it was so I wanted to give it a go or wanted a
grip for my camera for photography you can shoot portrait
let's see you can have two batteries in there so those are the big things for me
and want it to have a grip from 1873 so yeah picked it up and it works great so
figured I'll go over some of the features of it today just how some of
the buttons feel and overall what do I think of it so this is a grip made from
China by a company called make a or Mikey I don't know how to pronounce it
so it was designed for the a7 r3 and the a9 but it does work with the a7 three
completely everything works about it it's a grip it's made of a very similar
material to the camera it's made of plastic but it feels pretty high-quality
the rubber bits here are very similar to the rubber bits on the camera here so it
kind of matches up really well with the design of the camera and it it looks
like it was designed for it so I'm really happy with the design
the only better I'm not overly keen about is the little catch here the
unlock and kind of door it feels really crappy it feels very
like cheap and you might break off anytime so if it breaks off I'll have to
figure something else out but dropped it and I survived the drop so that's a good
thing aside from that and feel quality is pretty good to attach to the camera
just unlock your battery door and then there's a little switch just inside
there you pull down and it just come straight off on the grip there is
actually a place you can store it so just in here just attaches to the grip
the same way you would on the door clicks in and once it's in there you can
actually lock it in and it and it stays there so that's a really nice thing go
straight into the camera and screws together like any other grip for a
camera does really once it's on there it feels really strong it doesn't have any
flexing I tried some out for the a 6300 a 6500 and because it didn't connect
quite the same as this it moved in the middle one it was really annoying not so
much with this it's on this solid there is a little tiny gap in there like maybe
half a millimeter but doesn't bother me at all couldn't already see it when you
hold up to the light even here you can see the rubber kind of matches up with
it so well that wasn't design see what I have to deal with so the look of the
grip is consistent with the camera the rubber matches up in most of the areas
since it cost it was a hundred and nineteen ninety-nine US trip to Canada
it was like 200 including taxes and import fees I'll put the link down below
friends and if you wanted to check it out a bonus it smells good for some
reason I don't know what it smells off but this smells good like new and fresh
like a new car somebody was asking me if when it's plugged in you need to have a
cable connected to it like you did with some other grips and
does it need to go from the grip into the camera to function no it doesn't it
works completely just when it's connected the camera recognizes as a
grip it thinks it's probably the official Sony one and yeah works fine as
you can hopefully see that it does show battery one so if you had two batteries
connected it would show you both batteries and their percentages as well
which is a nice feature all the buttons that correlate to the one on the camera
work on the grip as well you have the option to shoot in portrait as well as
in landscape with the camera which is kind of the purpose of a grip as well as
the doubled battery life for it to work you have to turn the grip on and the
camera on if one is on and not the other it won't work properly camera has to be
on and grip has to be on now somebody was asking me if the camera is turned
off the grip is left on will it drain the battery in this case not I tried it
out and left it overnight it doesn't drain the battery at all apparently this
is a problem with the a7 r3 and the a9 in some instances with this grip not the
case of the a7 3 if you leave the grip turned on the cameras left off it will
not drain the battery so you heard that here for me I tested it it doesn't work
like that so that's a good thing once again both have to be turned on for the
camera to function ones off and the other isn't it will not work the buttons
will work aren't the same in terms of how they feel and how they respond and
how they sound so for example c1 here and see one up here the grips buttons
are a lot more cookie cheaper I guess not quite the same as the ones on the
camera don't sound the same but they still work so I mean it's up to you
whether you like that or don't like that in my opinion it doesn't really make a
difference because it still works same goes for the joystick joystick on the
camera and on the grip a little bit of a different sound
the AEL bun more of a spongy sound and on the grip it's a definite click so
difference in bands but is it deal-breaker absolutely not
it does have a thread on the bottom for you to be able to mount your plate or to
a tripod or whatever you want to do with
it aside from that it's a grip works feels
good doesn't feel too cheap didn't cost three hundred and fifty us no need to go
and buy the actual Sonia unless you have an excess of money
because this in my opinion that's just the same thing for a lesson half the
cost so just get this one it's dead links down below if you want to check it
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you