FS7: camera stopped during time lapse

P

Publimix

Veteran
My FS7 stopped recording during a time lapse recording (clouds in the sky) settings one frame per second. Temperature outside was high about 28 degrees celsius.

Viewfinder was black.

I had the camera in the house and after a while it worked again.

1 minute recording time left on one card and 22 on the other.

What can this be?
 
If the camera was in the direct sun it probably overheated even though the air temperature wasn't that high. I've had my iPhone shut down a couple of times while it was sitting in the sun.
That's just my guess.
 
Publimix said:
Temperature outside was high about 28 degrees celsius.
Click to expand...

I would be surprised if 28 degrees caused the issue. We have filmed baseball all day with FS7s with B4s in our sometimes insane Aussie temps. Some days between 46 - 49 degrees Celsius, yes 46-49, in the blazing sun for hours with a hot wind blowing. The cameras being almost to hot to hold. That is very hot and and when you think Sony specify an operating temp range of 0 to +40 C its left us being more than impressed with how the FS7s handled the conditions. I know some guys have had problems with Lexar XQD cards in extreme heat but not seen that with the Sony XQDs... so far! The cameras stand up better than we do in those conditions, not fun shooting.

Chris Young
 
cyvideo said:
I would be surprised if 28 degrees caused the issue. We have filmed baseball all day with FS7s with B4s in our sometimes insane Aussie temps. Some days between 46 - 49 degrees Celsius, yes 46-49, in the blazing sun for hours with a hot wind blowing. The cameras being almost to hot to hold. That is very hot and and when you think Sony specify an operating temp range of 0 to +40 C its left us being more than impressed with how the FS7s handled the conditions. I know some guys have had problems with Lexar XQD cards in extreme heat but not seen that with the Sony XQDs... so far! The cameras stand up better than we do in those conditions, not fun shooting.

Chris Young
Click to expand...

I agree, I’ve shot in temperatures so hot I got burns from handling the tripod, camera never missed a beat. Faulty battery would be my guess.
 
Thanks,

Or the fan is stuck. I didn't hear the fan in the camera, fan is on auto-control, yes on auto... It is auto, or off, or off during filming. fter a while the camera worked again. Battery can be old too.
 
Being on time lapse to the camera might feel more like a continuous run and thus might get hotter than on and off shooting. Just a wild totally uninformed guess though (my specialty.)

"Update, seems that the battery is dead. But that makes it more mysterious, the camera was on ac power."

I assume you've thought that maybe the AC got disconnected for some reason and you were actually on battery power?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top