I was suddenly confronted by the error message that the fan was not operating when shooting in the field today. The camera had worked flawlessly earlier in the morning - just below freezing outside - and the battery was almost unused, but it shut down after a few seconds stating the the fan was...
I have an HMC40 which I use for documentary work outdoors and a Rode NTG-2 shotgun microphone with an XLR-adapter cable mounted on the camera (which usually, but not always, sits on a tripod.) In other words, only one microphone is used and I do not foresee any change in that.
Since I work...