Re: Canon R5 Mk II - battery issue in cold weather
I've had the R52 for a couple of weekends as a replacement to an original R5 that I damaged shooting in some pretty heavy rain at an NFL game. The first NFL game I shot with it in temp around 4 I was able to get through the entire game on two sets of the new batteries. The second NFL game I shot with temps in the mid-20s I had issues. I'm also using the new grip that allows me to plug in an ethernet cord to send pictures to my editor about a dozen times throughout the game, so that is using up even more battery. I'm also shooting with a 200-400 zoom on that camera so I'm guessing thats using more power than a shorter zoom lens. In this past game I got a noticed while trying to send around the end of the first half that my battery power was too low to send pictures, I had about 50% battery power remaining at that point. I dropped in a second set of batteries I had been keeping warm in my jacket and was able to make it to the start of the 4th quarter before those batteries dropped too low to allow the camera to send photos. I replaced those with the first set of batteries that I had been warming up in my jacket and I made it to about halfway through that quarter before I wasn’t able to send again. I was able to still shoot the rest of the games, but I just couldn’t send any more photos. I put the camera back into our workroom to warm up as I left for about 20 minutes to shoot a press conference and when I came back the camera and batteries had warmed up enough that I could send photos again.
The fact that this setup won't allow me to send photos when the batteries are still at 50% power is very frustrating.
I shot a basketball game with the camera for the first time over the weekend and shot close to 4,000 frames with this camera and the batteries never dropped below 50%.
I'm based in Wisconsin and do a lot of outdoor shooting in the winter so I'm very concerned with the cold weather issues I'm having with this camera.
Dec 02, 2024 at 05:07 PM
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