EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

[truza333]

Hello guys. I've got an issue I was hoping someone could help me with. I'm trying to shoot a timelapse movie. 

1 Shot every 15 min, 2600 shots... 

So, about a month long timelapse movie. The problem is, the camera stops shooting after about an hour or so. It doesn't save anything. 

I don't hear it beep after a bit, I go press the info button, and instead of popping on the display and showing it recording, it does nothing. I have press the shutter button and it wakes the camera up. 

I was hired to shoot this for a construction company and the first day is completely shot. Nothing to show for it, with a $3500 camera.

Any ideas?

Its hooked into ac power and I disabled the auto-off power setting. 

[jswt25]

I had these issues. It was because I was using an SD card. Upgraded to a Lexar CF card and everything works as it should.

[Waddizzle]

“ I was just disappointed that a feature was so poorly implemented on a camera that many use professionally. Fortunately I assumed that it may fail and caught it before I lost several days. The crazy thing is that it doesn't even save what it captured. You hear it taking photos... but then there is nothing at all on the camera. “

You never shared your settings.  So I am more inclined to blame your settings than the camera.  In fact, I suspect that you may encounter similar issues with the intervalometer. They work the same way.  One saves separate images. One combines them into a video. Otherwise, no difference. 

[jswt25]

Like other folk who have posted about this issue, I tried many different camera modes and exposure settings. Since switching from a SansDisk SD card to the 128GB Lexar Silver CF card the problem has never occurred.

[truza333]

The settings shouldn't have anything to do with it. The camera should be able to shoot a frame every x minutes regardless of the settings, unless the shutter speed is longer than the intervalometer, settings should make no dif. In this case I was using a 1TB CF card.

[truza333]

Can't tell if trying to be helpful or trolling. I'll never truly know what the issue was because the Sony A9 worked right out of the box no issue. Same settings... Though the Sony lens selection at 10mm is poor and I ended up having to go with a 12mm. Going to use the R5 just for stills now, which honestly, is the only thing it was ever really good for. I remember shooting some video of my dogs at 8k shortly after I got it and it literally overheated within I'd say 3-4 minutes.

[Waddizzle]

You didn’t provide sufficient information to reproduce your issue.

”It doesn’t work” doesn’t work.

[Waddizzle]

 “ The settings shouldn't have anything to do with it. The camera should be able to shoot a frame every x minutes regardless of the settings, unless the shutter speed is longer than the intervalometer, settings should make no dif. In this case I was using a 1TB CF card.. “

Seeing how your issue is the exception and not the rule, i am certain that you have a settings issue.  Namely, power settings. 

I have a suggestion.  Restore the changes you made to the power settings back to their original factory defaults.  The camera is smart enough to wake itself up for each shot.