I was shooting my sons' HS Football this past Saturday in Walnut Creek, CA under 95 degree from 1-4 pm. My R5 show high temperature waring but the R6 shuts off due to high temperature and I missed a coupe of good opportunities for wonderful shot as the camera is off. I was in photo mode only, I paired my R5 with 300 and R6 with 70-200. I was mainly shooting with the R5 and the R6 was on my side majority of the time and I don't understand why it overheated and not the R5.
Has anyone experience this before and how can I avoid this from happening.
I had this happen last spring. I had the back LCD brightness maxed out with a long timeout so it was producing a lot of heat. It was only in the 80's though but I was in direct sunlight. I also had it paired to my phone for GPS but setting it to airplane mode probably would have reduced heat too.
An external power source helps with heat management and is a common setup for video, and could work for stills if you use a cage. Recording to an external monitor helps too but, that would be awkward for handheld stills. I did notice my R6 MK II running a lot cooler with a monitor. Also, maybe try an external cooling fan from Neewer or Smallrig.
terence5ng wrote:
I set my LCD to auto and the camera goes to sleep in like 3 minutes, so the R6 should be in sleep mode but still overheated.
Did it overheat or did the battery drain to zero? Was it by chance accidentally switched to video capture?
For it to overheat something must have kept it awake and active. I find when I have a second camera at my side, it tends to stay awake because the EVF sensor that switches between the rear LCD and EVF tends to be constantly activated. You could try flipping around the LCD to turn it off.
The R6 is a power hungry camera as it is because its electronics are less efficient than the R6II (I have both), so it just running, for whatever reason, combined with the warm conditions may have compounded matters.
I never had an issue with photos, and my R6 (when I had it), I don't do video, but I kept getting the temp warning for video. I shot in some very hot days here in Ohio. The camera did get very hot to the touch, but never shut down other than when the battery died.
I've had something vaguely similar recently happening with R6/2, but it didn't exactly overheat, because it happened while visiting Iceland.
I was using mostly in photo mode, but from one time onwards it appeared to be warm and it was eating through my new battery quite fast relative to the low activity I had had been doing with it. It was not like minutes, but IIRC the battery was done in less than 2 hours of just few tens of shots.
I then replaced the battery with the new one (I do switch off the camera with the low battery before replacing) and after the power on it didn't repeat further.
So there may be something which may be going off rails rarely, but perhaps switching the camera off and on may do away with it.
MintMar wrote:
I've had something vaguely similar recently happening with R6/2, but it didn't exactly overheat, because it happened while visiting Iceland.
I was using mostly in photo mode, but from one time onwards it appeared to be warm and it was eating through my new battery quite fast relative to the low activity I had had been doing with it. It was not like minutes, but IIRC the battery was done in less than 2 hours of just few tens of shots.
I then replaced the battery with the new one (I do switch off the camera with the low battery before replacing) and after the power on it didn't repeat further.
So there may be something which may be going off rails rarely, but perhaps switching the camera off and on may do away with it....Show more →
Interesting. Have you had trouble with that first battery again? Either there's an issue with the camera that was fixed by the battery pull, or maybe that battery has too much internal resistance, increasing heat which makes its way into the camera.
Mike_5D wrote:
Interesting. Have you had trouble with that first battery again? Either there's an issue with the camera that was fixed by the battery pull, or maybe that battery has too much internal resistance, increasing heat which makes its way into the camera.
I cannot vouchsafe for anything, because the trip was on one hand full of photo opportunities and places, on the other hand I was almost always just wheezily trailing two younger and more fit crazy tourist colleagues who had mobile phones and not a 10kg bag of photo HW and support stuff, so I can't say which battery did it, although I can tell them apart. I'd say I went through all of them at least once more and didn't have the issue again.
