It has been about 2 hours since the start of the thread. Maybe 2 hours is not long enough to fully charge the new battery or maybe when it is fully charged the time is not appropriate to carry another field test.
NissanPatrol wrote:
It has been about 2 hours since the start of the thread. Maybe 2 hours is not long enough to fully charge the new battery or maybe when it is fully charged the time is not appropriate to carry another field test.
I’m in 15°C temp here in Sydney on a brand-new battery 45 minutes in to walk around regular shooting and have fired off 250 odd shots using continuous focus. Out of the box power settings. there is no way that this camera is going to overheat. Will keep going...
Edit. About an hour later. No heat in the body whatsoever now. 16deg temp. Battery just went down a notch from full. Note this is consistent single shot continuous AF. Feels like Sony a7iii battery drain rate to me (had one for 1.5years). This camera is amazing to handle btw.
Edit: 2.5 hrs 400 shots 53% battery lots of chimping and playing with menus. No overheating or very similar body temps to every other mirrorless camera I have used. I would say for this style of shooting I will need 2 batteries for a whole day of street photography. Battery life feels better than my xt2 was but not quite as good as my Sony 7iii was.
I think it would be more accurate to say you ran into comparability issues using an LP-E6N battery in the R5, no? I'll have to try a bunch of different methods when I get back home and shoot a full few days with it.
Visceral Image wrote:
I think it would be more accurate to say you ran into comparability issues using an LP-E6N battery in the R5, no? I'll have to try a bunch of different methods when I get back home and shoot a full few days with it.
You should keep telling everyone your camera isn't heating up that is great. What you shouldn't do is keep telling them mine isn't.
That's a big disappointment Andy, I was hoping to try the r5 when the price comes down. My 7d2 is getting pretty old and the only FF I have is a 1ds2. Probably OK in the cold and it's been awful hot here this week, but still doesn't look good for the r5.
Hey Andy thanks for reporting your findings. I used mine yesterday with a LP-E6N as my new battery was charging. I had mine at 120fps also. I was in H+ mode. It was very hot out here too. I did not get a heat warning.
My battery is from 2019 from my EOS R, not that it should matter but it is a newer battery. Curious how the new battery will do. I did take my CFExpress card out right away and noticed the card was very warm.
One question, what card did you use? According to TN's latest video he told the quick overheating in his previous test was because of his memory card, the faster cf express he used made him record video longer than with the other card. Not that you are facing the same issue with stills, I just wonder if it could be related in a way. (maybe the buffer can write slower to the card and causes problems?) Just a thought.
It seems that we have to wait one more day with testing the R5 because the delivery company screwed up and the package is still in transit. Bummer.
Are you sure it is an OEM battery and not some junk battery claimed to be OEM by amazon? (Speaking from experience, will never buy accessories from amazon again).
I posted this in another thread but I shot in unobstructed San Diego sun for an hour and a half this afternoon using an 8 year old LP-E6 (red battery health, one star - didn’t feel like waiting for new battery to charge). I had the screen on constantly changing settings for an hour immediately before going outside. No overheating problems. Grip felt no warmer than my 5D3 grip after wandering around in the sun sweating for the same time period in the past. Was shooting with servo and single point or eye defect focus
Grip might be the answer.
As far as being real batteries they came with Canon cameras and have never been a problem.
Did you have high refresh set in viewfinder? I wanted to report no jerkyness when tracking so turned that on. Did you look through the view finder for 5 minutes at a time waiting to get a jump shot? Something I have done on two Canon mirrorless bodies for over an hour with no heat warnings.
I only have SD for now and was using a very fast card around 2000x.
kezeka wrote:
Are you sure it is an OEM battery and not some junk battery claimed to be OEM by amazon? (Speaking from experience, will never buy accessories from amazon again).
I think you may have a faulty camera, Andrew ... so either send it to Canon for them to check ... or ship it back to where you bought it and explaining the problem and asks for a replacement - that you may get in November ... if you are lucky!
Andrew J wrote:
Grip might be the answer.
As far as being real batteries they came with Canon cameras and have never been a problem.
Did you have high refresh set in viewfinder? I wanted to report no jerkyness when tracking so turned that on. Did you look through the view finder for 5 minutes at a time waiting to get a jump shot? Something I have done on two Canon mirrorless bodies for over an hour with no heat warnings.
I only have SD for now and was using a very fast card around 2000x.
RobAmy wrote:
Hey Andy thanks for reporting your findings. I used mine yesterday with a LP-E6N as my new battery was charging. I had mine at 120fps also. I was in H+ mode. It was very hot out here too. I did not get a heat warning.
My battery is from 2019 from my EOS R, not that it should matter but it is a newer battery. Curious how the new battery will do. I did take my CFExpress card out right away and noticed the card was very warm.
Thanks Rob. The warning I got was a small flame at the top of the viewfinder. Some people might see that and just ignore it. I don't expect everyone's shooting style to have overheating. I just don't see how anyone is going to get a high frame-rate with anything other than the custom R5 battery LP-E6NH.
I will get a grip to get more runtime and get that heat out of the inside of the camera.
Everything else I like about the camera. Even the high ISO shots look really great.
I'm sorry you took it that way. I felt it was more accurate to say you discovered a potentially worrisome compatibility issue with older batteries versus saying the R5 overheats taking photos. Nowhere did I say my camera doesn't overheat or that yours didn't...but you are speaking from a single experience using a backwards compatible battery versus a new LP-E6NH battery and multiple days of experience. Do you not understand the difference I'm highlighting?
Andrew J wrote:
You should keep telling everyone your camera isn't heating up that is great. What you shouldn't do is keep telling them mine isn't.
kezeka wrote:
Are you sure it is an OEM battery and not some junk battery claimed to be OEM by amazon? (Speaking from experience, will never buy accessories from amazon again).
I posted this in another thread but I shot in unobstructed San Diego sun for an hour and a half this afternoon using an 8 year old LP-E6 (red battery health, one star - didn’t feel like waiting for new battery to charge). I had the screen on constantly changing settings for an hour immediately before going outside. No overheating problems. Grip felt no warmer than my 5D3 grip after wandering around in the sun sweating for the same time period in the past. Was shooting with servo and single point or eye defect focus...Show more →
I wonder how many heat issues have been more from the battery than the sensor? On test bodies was Canon sending a grip along? Does using a grip let you shoot much longer clips before over-heating?
While I understand there might be unforeseen heating problems beyond video, i find it fairly easy to believe that canon is having difficulties producing enough cameras during a global pandemic that is regularly disrupting nearly every supply line in the world. Evidence of supply line problems is apparent if you turn your attention to the EF to RF adapter shortage, is that also caused by overheating?
One way or another we’ll find out eventually. Just glad I have an R5 in hand that isn’t overheating under my usage scenarios.
Thanks for the heads up Andy. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread as well as my batteries.
I also used my 90D LP-E6N battery (fully charged) last evening while I was charging the R5 battery. I pretty much had the camera on for a few hours while I played around with menu settings and then went outside in the SC heat/humidity to experiment a little before the sun went down. 390 clicks total using both ES and MS modes, No video.
I did not have any heat warnings and everything seemed fine from I could tell. I did notice a very slight warmth on the back when I went to flip the screen out but I assume that is normal for mirrorless bodies.
I had a 100mm 2.8 and my 500II mounted to it during this time. By the time I got back in the house and removed both the CFE (Sandisk 128gb extreme Pro) and SD cards they seemed normal temp.
Due to this thread, I registered both the LP-E6N as well as the new LP-E6NH batteries in camera to keep track of them. BTW, both bats showed 3 bars when fully charged. The LP-E6N was down to 25% by the time I had to give up last night when it got dark out. This R5 seems to be a little power piggy, but in all fairness I did have the EVF set to 120 most of the evening and rear LCD turning on and off constantly while I was playing.
Just tossing as much info out there in case anything is relevant during this discussion.
