Originally posted by kenafein That's better than me. I probably get about 400 - 450 with no flash use. Do you turn off the LCD? Awesome picture by the way.
Thanks (as you can see - the camera really "got in the way" of that shot - NOT! I deliberately used a dense filter to get the motion blur - it was actually quite bright in the early afternoon - and I was manually tracking focus on the Summicron)
I don't turn off the LCD, but I do turn off the camera when I am not taking shots. Generally 600 is normal when I am taking a lot of shots - I get less if I am taking shots sporadically, but I would still get over 500. And I am using cheap imitation batteries from Ebay.
I do carry a second battery, but in the years that I have owned a NEX, I can only remember swapping batteries less than a dozen times. And you know how trigger happy I am.