I found this video today. It’s not ad-free, but quite cool.
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Wow! Great idea, great video!
Can we somehow get the measurements of the heatsink? It shouldn’t be hard to make a 3D model and have it machined out of copper.
I’d be pretty ticked off to spend $4K for a state of the art camera and then have make a DIY hardware modification to get it to shoot video.
I will say that my birder friends say this is an awesome wildlife camera… for stills
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But with a mod it’s an long duration shooting 12bit 8k raw camera in a mirrorless stills body!
With a fan mod too, it can shoot indefinitely.
That’s probably the cheapest and the best that we’ll get for years. I’m just thankful there is a mod an I wouldn’t be surprised if stores stared to offer conversion services and R5 cooling solutions.
I understand where you’re coming from. If you’re a professional and it’s a tool of the trade then a mod like that would make sense. But for a lot of people that camera would be the buy of a lifetime, and at least from my perspective, I’d be pretty upset if it couldn’t perform the basic functionality it was designed for. Frankly, the company ought to be ashamed of itself… and I’m a Canon shooter!
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I understand you, but listen. Most of the time you won’t even shoot 4k 60, let alone 8k or even raw.
Why? Because if $4k camera is a buy of a lifetime then you can only imagine what a buy would be a machine that can handle 8K ALL-I footage. Then you also need monitors that cost like a used car. Calibrators to keep the color correct. And then the last part. Storage, storage and storage.
Just to put it in a perspective, you need CF Express card to shoot 8k raw that has 2600 Mbps bitrate. The current biggest card from SanDisk is 512GB and costs 761eur.
512GB would sound like a lot until you realize that’s only enough to store around 26min of 3k raw footage.
When you take that into account then you realize that the overheating issue isn’t even an issue because you most likely won’t have enough storage to reach the overheating block in 8k.
All in all, if the overheating bothers you, then you must own a lot of CF Express cards and PC storage, then the price of the camera becomes nothing. And you can probably risk modding it. But you aren’t risking anything, it’s just a heatsink replacement. If you ever assembled a PC, you can mod the R5. Get rid of the static electricity and go to town.
If you don’t own enough storage, then don’t be bothered by overheating because you most likely won’t ever have an issue with that because you don’t have enough storage to shoot so much 8k or 4k slow motion.
Now there is probably another solution. I’d like to know if a camera would overheat while outputting 8k signal to an external recorder. Probably not, or after a long period of time. And if the external recorder could write to SSD storage then that would make shooting 8k and 4k slowmo much more affordable.
So yeah, I don’t like that it overheats and I hate Canon for it but I’d also buy one if I won the lottery xD
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Another video on diy hw solution for R5 overheating problem:
