How do you cooling the camera at long shooting?

Started by Anton2707, July 30, 2012, 03:03:42 PM

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Anton2707

How do you cooling the camera at long shooting?

screamer

Interesting question, i'm courious about the answers. the only thing that i try to do when shooting on the direct sunlight is to make shadow with something :) but not a great solution ahahah
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Michael Zöller

Switching batteries and the memory cards often helps, they tend to get very warm.
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Anton2707

Shadow is not the most effective means to help for long, especially in summer when it is very hot.
I think try to attach the radiator on the back of the camera, but it will not compact ...

3pointedit

Use an external power supply, like hand grip battery. Or liquid cooled like astrophotographers use!
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Chungdha

Switch batteries plus keep them in a bag where they don't get hot from the sun or hot from your body heat, use a rig if you want to do handheld shots to lessen the amount of body heat transfer. Have a umbrella girl next to ya keeping you in the shades.

Malcolm Debono

I try not to be in direct sunlight as much as possible. I also avoid keeping my hand on the grip (the side of the card compartment) as that's usually the part that gets hottest. As others said, replacing batteries and memory cards also helps. If it gets too hot, I try to give it some rest and place it in front of a fan  :D
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Donald

Recently I used fsp while shooting at night. After 90 minutes a temperature warning appeared on the LCD screen :( An advice was to use an external adapter since the original battery would /could produce /increase the warmth.
Unfortunately using an external adapter didn't make any sense, the temperature  warning still appeared after a while... Although I might take 'a few minutes longer fps-shoot' of the stars (@ .5fps).   

dude

Durin a break, i open the cardslot, the battery slot and even take of the lens for a while. for most cases, that s enough, even with hot weather

nanomad

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Michael Zöller

Lol, thats quite an effort, yes. But the example dark frame pictures speak for themselves.
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Pileot

Keep a cooler with your beers in it (cuz why not) and throw a few of those cheap china batteries in ziplock baggies into the ice. China batteries are, what, like $3 so who cares if it degrades the life and putting a cool battery into your camera will help cool it from the inside. Just make sure to check the batteries to make sure they dont leak.


nanomad

Be careful if you do that because you're putting something cool inside something warmer....
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nanomad

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ilguercio

Since i disassembled my 50D last year it is no longer like it came out from the factory.
In particular, there were those heatspreaders all over the motherboard and they were soldered in a couple of point to the pcb. Since i couldn't bother to unsolder them i just cut the soldering and never put them on again.
Doesn't seem to have affected my 50D that much, i never ran into overheating on a normal shooting. I had to make it come on purpose.
If somebody is concerned with overheating one should prolonge the power wires to the side of the camera and fit a female jack or something so you can plug your external power source.
Wall adapters, as far as i can understand, don't do the job because there always is a dummy battery inside the camera and that is the thing that builds up heat.
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