Andrew Luczenczyn
Active member
It's just something that we Canadian film makers have to deal with. It gets cold. But here in Winnipeg, it gets very cold. Today we hit -39. Dont bother doing the celcius to fahrenheit conversion - it's so cold it's the point where imperial and metric meet.
And of course we are scheduled to shoot outdoors.
As far as I know, this is as cold as anyone's taken the fs100 so I thought I'd share my thoughts.
The first issue was the LCD screen, and like many LCD screens, its refresh rate drops, creating a blurry strobe motion effect. Luckily I had one of those salt- crystal snap activated heat packs, which worked wonderfully when gaff-taped to the back of the LCD. This is why RED was praised for putting heaters in their viewfinders.
The NPF 970 batteries held up very well. We only shot an hour and used about 20%.
Other than those two comments, there was not much else to note. With no moving parts on the camera, I wasn't concerned with mechanical failure. I haven't caught any dropped frames after briefly looking at the footage. So far, this camera seems to be holding up in the cold weather.
And of course we are scheduled to shoot outdoors.
As far as I know, this is as cold as anyone's taken the fs100 so I thought I'd share my thoughts.
The first issue was the LCD screen, and like many LCD screens, its refresh rate drops, creating a blurry strobe motion effect. Luckily I had one of those salt- crystal snap activated heat packs, which worked wonderfully when gaff-taped to the back of the LCD. This is why RED was praised for putting heaters in their viewfinders.
The NPF 970 batteries held up very well. We only shot an hour and used about 20%.
Other than those two comments, there was not much else to note. With no moving parts on the camera, I wasn't concerned with mechanical failure. I haven't caught any dropped frames after briefly looking at the footage. So far, this camera seems to be holding up in the cold weather.
