I certainly don't discount the overheating in stills report here nor the one on FM. But I wish more details would be given to both of them. I had to press the guy on FM a lot just to try to get a straight story if the camera actually shut down and wouldn't allow stills shooting or if the battery had just died. Even then, his answer was confusing and I still don't understand if he was immediately able to replace the maybe dead? battery (which was super hot) and keep shooting or not? The report in this thread is also confusing if he was able to keep going right after or not? I'm also confused with the FM report of what icon he got? On this report it was the red, rounded-corner rectangle with the thermometer that we've seen on all the 8K overheating videos. But on the FM thread he mentions "a flame" so was that just a battery warning because the battery was getting so hot (which tends to point more towards a bad battery)??
What I find strange, and what leads me to believe that neither of these reports are going to be regular occurrences, is that even though we know that shooting stills can bring the camera to overheat warning and stop you from shooting 8K, 4K120 and 4KHQ, even then the camera can switch back to 4K or 1080 and shoot forever. So I just don't see how the camera would stop shooting stills even if stills shooting brought it to the heat level of shutting down 8K. We know just leaving the camera on and doing nothing can drop the 8K limit to zero, but people are still able to shoot stills and lower quality 4K etc. When the overheating icon comes on and the counter goes to zero, the camera puts up that black screen with message about shutting down. But as we've seen in Gerald's 3hr livestream, the camera doesn't lock you out of the menus. He was able to go over and enter the menus and switch down the video quality and continue on. And even though he didn't test it, I'm fairly certain he could have started shooting stills also at that point.
I'd be interested to hear from both the guy on this thread and Andrew at FM if they got that same black screen message and if they were still able to go into the menus? If they could still access the menus then could they not just keep firing some stills? All seems very odd to me and again I think must be an uncommon (possible defect in camera or battery) issue and shouldn't be a normal issue R5 owners are going to have to worry about.
What I find strange, and what leads me to believe that neither of these reports are going to be regular occurrences, is that even though we know that shooting stills can bring the camera to overheat warning and stop you from shooting 8K, 4K120 and 4KHQ, even then the camera can switch back to 4K or 1080 and shoot forever. So I just don't see how the camera would stop shooting stills even if stills shooting brought it to the heat level of shutting down 8K. We know just leaving the camera on and doing nothing can drop the 8K limit to zero, but people are still able to shoot stills and lower quality 4K etc. When the overheating icon comes on and the counter goes to zero, the camera puts up that black screen with message about shutting down. But as we've seen in Gerald's 3hr livestream, the camera doesn't lock you out of the menus. He was able to go over and enter the menus and switch down the video quality and continue on. And even though he didn't test it, I'm fairly certain he could have started shooting stills also at that point.
I'd be interested to hear from both the guy on this thread and Andrew at FM if they got that same black screen message and if they were still able to go into the menus? If they could still access the menus then could they not just keep firing some stills? All seems very odd to me and again I think must be an uncommon (possible defect in camera or battery) issue and shouldn't be a normal issue R5 owners are going to have to worry about.
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