View Full Version : anyone having OVERHEATING issues? I'm not.
Zak Forsman
09-12-2008, 03:20 AM
I think Kholi said it happened to him at least once. But i've been out shooting for WANDERLUST (http://www.sabipictures.com/wanderlust/) all day for two days straight in the hot, hot sun of Long Beach and Huntington beach and have yet to see any evidence of an overheated camera. anyone else? did i just jinx myself?
here are some screenshots from the end of the huntington beach day.
http://www.isarapix.org/pix94/1221214532.jpg
http://www.isarapix.org/pix13/1221214564.jpg (http://www.sabipictures.com/wanderlust/)
your shots have nice gradients
did you draw a custom curve or the linear default one produced that?
Thebes
09-12-2008, 04:12 AM
I've shot several 5 minute clips back to back. I noticed the camera was a touch warm, but it never gave me a warning, nor did it shut down. I didn't test well enough to see if it added noise, but my gut feeling is that noise was pretty constant.
Matthew Bennett
09-12-2008, 06:59 AM
Which SDHC card are you using Zak?
The WL story sounds really cool.
I'm also quite eager to DL some custom curves into the camera, something I've done frequently using the Andromeda system, where you input your capture LUT when you capture.
Zak Forsman
09-12-2008, 10:37 AM
your shots have nice gradients
did you draw a custom curve or the linear default one produced that?
not in-camera. i brought it into apple color for grading.
Kholi
09-12-2008, 05:57 PM
I got it again myself yesterday. Zak were you on the glidecam/whatever when you were shooting? I have a tendency to put the hell of my palm where the camera actually gets hot, so that's probably why it's doing that for me.
stoiqa
09-12-2008, 07:04 PM
gets warm...and shoot in one hour about 35 minutes...with stops in between...but never got 5min straight(back2back)
Thebes
09-16-2008, 12:09 AM
I had mine over heat today on a shoot. I was in the shot and I heard the mirror click back down and saw the viewfinder (which was lit from behind) in the mirror through the lens. No idea what warnings the camera might have given since I was in front of it. Video was fine up until the mirror flop. I waited about 3 minutes and then did a retake without issue.
I had been running the camera in 2-4 minutes shots for about an hour, with it in Live View almost the entire time it wasn't recording. Its probably helpful to turn off Live View a bit here and there in this sort of situation. I haven't ingressed the footage yet, but playback through the on camera lcd didn't show obvious noise issues.
John Sandel
09-16-2008, 12:41 AM
Thebes: thanks for this description. Gives a feel for what to expect.
(I think "ingressed" is a first at this site.)
Car3o
09-22-2008, 11:25 PM
I had mine overheat, I think. The live view mode kicked back to still. It had a counter saying how much time was left. I turned it back to live mode and a 30 sec counter was counting down. I wasn't even recording when it happened.
Although beforehand I had the menu up and sitting in my lap for I don't know how long then went and walked around with it in live mode to try to get a certain setting and then pusehd record for about a min and then it kicked to still.
I honestly think any over heating this camera has is due to the LCD.
Arrik
09-23-2008, 12:09 AM
Happened to me once and I think only after like a half hour. Zak do you turn L.V. off inbetween shots?
Maybe that's how youre making the long haul.
Kholi
09-23-2008, 12:13 AM
Actually, I managed to go a really long time with the LV on when I had the d90 attached to the RED. And, I think it was because my hands weren't on it.
I believe Zak uses a glidecam or something like that, which means his hand never really rests on the camera to add the extra heat.
Food for thought!