FS5: Kastar and FS5

scorsesefan

scorsesefan

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I just purchased a Kastar BPU-66 battery for my FS5 and I'm noticing that it fits very tightly in the battery compartment. I'm a bit worried about damaging/breaking the battery contacts on the FS5 when I swap out the battery.

Anyone else notice this?

Thanks
 
Sometimes third-party batteries are tight fits.

Nothing should happen, but it is probably unnecessary stress.
 
haha, both if you care...it would stress me out because I don't like things like that. I have various OCD issues.

I like the way a battery cleanly clicks into place.

Sometimes I have to put a lens on again if I don't feel a good click.
 
No, I wound up with an XT3. Once upon a time I owned a BMCC 2.5K and I was optimistic about BM as a company but this whole BMPCC 4K roll out really soured me on them, and as Dan pointed out due to their quirks they're really not ideal cameras for working pros...
 
I'd bet that Dan has never used a Blackmagic camera or not a lot of them (with all due respect).

I can usually tell by how people talk about them, ha.
 
You may well find that your freshly charged third party battery causes the camera to make you re input the date and time fields. It seems that if you let it sit for a day or two before using it it may not happen. Weird behaviour though.
 
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