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Does the EOS R8 overheat?

Fireflyforest
Apprentice

I am wanting to buy the R8 camera but i heard it has an overheating issue? is this common? If so, Has that issue been fixed? I am wanting to know before i decide, especially since i live in Florida and mainly shoot outdoors. 

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justadude
Mentor
Mentor

I've owned the R8 for roughly a year now.  I live in Michigan where the summers are very hot and humid, and I also shoot outdoors.  Personally, I have had the overheat warning come on one time after about 10 minutes of shooting.  I turned the camera off... used my old DSLR instead for a few minutes.  After about 15 minutes I turned the R8 back on, and it was fine - stayed fine over the next few hours of heavy shooting.  This was after owning the camera for close to 6 months with no issues.

Digging around online the next day I found others that had similar overheating problems.  One person said that a fairly large temperature difference on the body can cause the heat warning to go on, at least in his personal experience.  That made me think... normally in the hot weather I am one of those people that love 90 degree days.  I never use air conditioning at home or in the car - windows open.  So when I use the R8 it's been in a house or car that is the same temperature as it is outside where I shoot.  However, the previous day I was in a friend's air conditioned car for 90 minutes while we drove to where we were taking photos.  Got out of a 65 degree car and out into the 95 degree heat, and that's when the heat warning light came on.

I've shot heavily outside many times since on very hot days - no overheating.  So there must be some truth in what that user said.  However (there's that word again), I do not shoot video, and I did read (on the internet) where some users have problems with overheating during video.  I would wait to see what other users say here on the forum since it's generally more reliable advice in this community.  


Gary
Lake Michigan Area MI

Digital Cameras: Canon EOS R6 Mk ll, EOS R8, EOS RP, ...and a few other brands
Film Cameras: Mostly Pentax, Kodak, and Zenit... and still heavily used

LeeP
Rising Star
Rising Star

This is interesting news. I have an R8 and live in a place that pretty much has summer from April until the end of October and during what people think is summer, the heat comes from the furnace of a fiery biblical place and I have NEVER had any overheating issue. I realize that a report of one does not invalidate what other say, but in having an R8 since they came out, it's performance has been flawless for me. 

So it basically needs to be more acclimated to the environment before shooting then? I normally let my camera acclimate before shooting when very hot and humid anyway, since the lens fogs up otherwise. So I probably wouldn’t have an issue if that’s the case then 🙂

Good to know! Thanks 🙂 …i noticed several complaints about this online but from what I’m hearing it might just be people going from a very cool temperature controlled environment to a sudden change to hot. And others it’s when shooting videos at 4k for long periods of time which i won’t be doing. 

Locally in June, July, and August we easily go 30+ days over 100 degrees and 110-115 are often the spikes. When I am out shooting in those conditions, I keep cameras in a bag out of direct sunlight and never leave them in the car if the car is going to be sitting for any length of time. If I go inside a building. I take them with me. I did some photography at the Salton Sea with DSLR Canons when the ambient temperature was 121 degrees with zero shade and took the precaution of putting the camera equipment in an ice chest--obviously no ice in it--to provide a layer of insulation. 

"So it basically needs to be more acclimated to the environment before shooting then?"

From my personal experience, and according to a few others I have talked to online, yes... acclimated to the environment.  But if you plan on shooting a lot of video, you will need feedback from someone who uses the R8 for video.  Seems if I need any video I use my R6 Mk ll for that.  

Oddly, even though the humidity can be 80-90% on summer days here, I don't get a problem with lens fog.  However when I'm doing night photography on one of the Great Lakes shorelines, that's when the lenses constantly fog up.  


Gary
Lake Michigan Area MI

Digital Cameras: Canon EOS R6 Mk ll, EOS R8, EOS RP, ...and a few other brands
Film Cameras: Mostly Pentax, Kodak, and Zenit... and still heavily used

"the heat comes from the furnace of a fiery biblical place and I have NEVER had any overheating issue."

I'm not surprised you don't have overheating issues with the R8 in those temps, but how do you keep your ice tea cold???  🙂 


Gary
Lake Michigan Area MI

Digital Cameras: Canon EOS R6 Mk ll, EOS R8, EOS RP, ...and a few other brands
Film Cameras: Mostly Pentax, Kodak, and Zenit... and still heavily used

Perhaps I'm lucky that I have not had issues, but my R8 experience has been flawless.

In extremely hot weather, you don't want extremely cold drinks due to the temperature differential that can cause body shock. I will typically put bottles of un-unchilled but room-temperature water in a cooler with maybe a freezable ice pack or two, but merely to keep them room temperature. Volume of water intake is vastly more crucial than the refreshment a sip of something ice-cold gives. 

I have also learned not to dilly dally when it's hot. Get out get the shots and get going is my mode.

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