My experience with it: I recorded a live performance three nights in a row. The show was about 2.5 hours with a 10 minute break in the middle. I used a dummy battery and AC adapter. On a tripod. Set up at the top of a large auditorium (where the heat is). I recorded at 4k30. The first two shows the highest I saw on the meter was 5 bars. The last night the crowd was packed, so it was a little warmer in the auditorium. It got up to the 6th bar at one point. This was right before the break at one hour and twenty minutes. For the second half of that show, after it cooled down, it got back up to six bars. I see all the videos of people screaming about overheating, but so far I can live with mine. Battery life is more of an issue for me than overheating.
I feel like the overheating performance is far better on the R8 when compared to the m6 Mark 2. I can't record 4k on the M6 ii for more than 40 minutes before it overheats and shuts down
@@movielover2172 it depends on the type of videos youre shooting and what you value with regards to features in video shooting: log picture profiles, 60fps, probability, currently owned lenses, etc
So with all the problems with Canon camera overheating, why hasn't Canon issued a modification to help solve or at least ease the problem? It doesn't seem a very complicated to add.
@@dalemettee1147 I believe it's market positioning. They'd rather you purchase the R6ii if you want more reliability for video. While also keeping costs down by simply using the design of the RP
I've had my R8 for 5 days. The image quality is gorgeous but mine overheats all the time recording video at 4k/60, in doors in an air-conditioned studio, using the 24-105 F4.0 lens. The camera is on a tripod and out of the sunlight. I record off the HDMI port too so I'm not actually recording to the internal card. I can get about 20-25m before the temperature icon starts blinking. Super frustrating and even thought I love the focusing and image quality, I'm probably going to return it. I record guitar-instructional videos and use a mic so I'm not sure I can use a cooling fan because my mic would pick it up... I was previously using the canon M50 and never once had any type of temperature issues. Maybe it's time to see what Nikon and Sony are up to? (I know sacrilegious in this forum but i'm pretty disgusted that canon would release this camera with this type of issue)
I wonder if the cooling fans for the R6 will fit the R8? I have an R6 II in my cart on KEH but after reading some reviews, I'm not sure it's significantly better.
When I tried this camera, it started overheating after just a few minutes of me playing around in the menu, while some people have no issue recording long videos. I wonder if it's a quality control issue and down to certain batches being faulty.
Shot 4k 24 for about an hour and a half testing a 3rd party battery that claimed it was decoded (actually was, very happy) hit about 5 bars, tbh that’s fine I typically shoot multiple clips with a little break in between, it was about 75 in the room I left the camera recording in. Surprisingly I still had quite a bit on the battery, that’s when it switched to the 2 bars on the battery and I decided the battery wasn’t lying lol
@@khanceptbelal camera shuts down and I have to wait like 10 mins before I can use it again and if I put it back to 4k24 it cools down straight away. For me the 4K60 is almost unusable because of how quickly it overheats. I went to the golf course early this morning so it wasn’t hot and was filming in short spurts and it still overheated
@@davidmaxfieldgolf there's still the advantage of better low light due to larger pixels and significantly less rolling shutter in crop mode. With regards to video, crop mode on a full frame camera will out perform a crop sensor camera across most if not all metrics. The only camera in in this class that does reliable 4k60 in full frame is the r6ii. Neither the a7cii nor the s5ii have full frame 4k60.
I have an R8, having upgraded from an R. I don't video, only stills, and mostly landscape, nature stuff, so rarely ever any high speed or continuous shooting. I have had the R8 show an overheating warning and shut down on a sunny 70°, low humidity day. This happened just today, twice. When it first happened about 6 weeks ago, I called Canon and they asked me to send it in. They turned it around in 24 hours with a note that it was acting normally. Obviously, i think that's garbage. No camera should overheat at those temperatures when shooting stills and especially when it's FAR below the stated maximum operating temperature of the camera. I'm not the only person who has had this issue, based on a Google search, and it doesn't seem widespread, so don't discount complaints about overheating. This never happened with my EOS-R or M50, and in much hotter weather than this. It's ridiculous. I told Canon that everytime this happens, I will send it back until they find a solution, which means it's going back this week.
I was in Arizona 2 days ago and i was out in the sun and the camera shut down within 20 min. It was about 90 on a gimbal shooting video 1080p
My experience with it: I recorded a live performance three nights in a row. The show was about 2.5 hours with a 10 minute break in the middle. I used a dummy battery and AC adapter. On a tripod. Set up at the top of a large auditorium (where the heat is). I recorded at 4k30. The first two shows the highest I saw on the meter was 5 bars. The last night the crowd was packed, so it was a little warmer in the auditorium. It got up to the 6th bar at one point. This was right before the break at one hour and twenty minutes. For the second half of that show, after it cooled down, it got back up to six bars. I see all the videos of people screaming about overheating, but so far I can live with mine. Battery life is more of an issue for me than overheating.
I feel like the overheating performance is far better on the R8 when compared to the m6 Mark 2. I can't record 4k on the M6 ii for more than 40 minutes before it overheats and shuts down
@@movielover2172 it depends on the type of videos youre shooting and what you value with regards to features in video shooting: log picture profiles, 60fps, probability, currently owned lenses, etc
if you shoot at 4k60 it will flash the temp icon in 25m
@@JackZucker you'll probably have another 30 min before it shuts down though
Batteries heat up as they discharge. Going with a dummy battery removes that source of heat, as would power through USB-C or a battery grip.
So with all the problems with Canon camera overheating, why hasn't Canon issued a modification to help solve or at least ease the problem? It doesn't seem a very complicated to add.
@@dalemettee1147 I believe it's market positioning. They'd rather you purchase the R6ii if you want more reliability for video. While also keeping costs down by simply using the design of the RP
I've had my R8 for 5 days. The image quality is gorgeous but mine overheats all the time recording video at 4k/60, in doors in an air-conditioned studio, using the 24-105 F4.0 lens. The camera is on a tripod and out of the sunlight.
I record off the HDMI port too so I'm not actually recording to the internal card. I can get about 20-25m before the temperature icon starts blinking.
Super frustrating and even thought I love the focusing and image quality, I'm probably going to return it. I record guitar-instructional videos and use a mic so I'm not sure I can use a cooling fan because my mic would pick it up...
I was previously using the canon M50 and never once had any type of temperature issues.
Maybe it's time to see what Nikon and Sony are up to? (I know sacrilegious in this forum but i'm pretty disgusted that canon would release this camera with this type of issue)
Consider exploring the following options: fx30, a7c, r6 mark ii, and r7
@@khanceptbelal i see lots of reports of those overheating as well.
I wonder if the cooling fans for the R6 will fit the R8? I have an R6 II in my cart on KEH but after reading some reviews, I'm not sure it's significantly better.
This is been my experience with the R6 ii ruclips.net/video/74j7TXnkbN8/видео.html
25 minutes is what the camera manual says you will get in continuous 4k60.
When I tried this camera, it started overheating after just a few minutes of me playing around in the menu, while some people have no issue recording long videos. I wonder if it's a quality control issue and down to certain batches being faulty.
It's possible
If ur having those type of issue. Canon will eventually give us an update and it will fix it as if rn canon r8 was kinda newly released
@@F92000 that's probably when it might be worth considering. Those fixes applied at around 1000 price tag will be quite attractive
It overheated for me at about 45 mins and I was recording HD only
Thanks for that clarification. It really helps in my process of determining which mirrorless body I'll purchase.
hi, can you share any C-Log footage link so that i can color grade and check the Canon R8's Video quality by myself, i was planning to buy this camera
I was hoping to get more out of this than what you would imagine would happen if you theoretically let it run all day.
Shot 4k 24 for about an hour and a half testing a 3rd party battery that claimed it was decoded (actually was, very happy) hit about 5 bars, tbh that’s fine I typically shoot multiple clips with a little break in between, it was about 75 in the room I left the camera recording in.
Surprisingly I still had quite a bit on the battery, that’s when it switched to the 2 bars on the battery and I decided the battery wasn’t lying lol
which battery did you use? Do you have a link for it?
I can't even get more than 15mins in 4k60 before it overheats. And that's not even continuous
When you're saying it overheats after 15 minutes, does the camera shut down or does the indicator simply come up?
@@khanceptbelal camera shuts down and I have to wait like 10 mins before I can use it again and if I put it back to 4k24 it cools down straight away. For me the 4K60 is almost unusable because of how quickly it overheats. I went to the golf course early this morning so it wasn’t hot and was filming in short spurts and it still overheated
@@davidmaxfieldgolf are you able to do 4k60 in crop mode?
@@khanceptbelal never tried as that’s why I went from the r10 to the full frame r8. If I have to go back to crop then I don’t see the point of it
@@davidmaxfieldgolf there's still the advantage of better low light due to larger pixels and significantly less rolling shutter in crop mode. With regards to video, crop mode on a full frame camera will out perform a crop sensor camera across most if not all metrics. The only camera in in this class that does reliable 4k60 in full frame is the r6ii. Neither the a7cii nor the s5ii have full frame 4k60.
good camera, i wan this for wedding videography
I have an R8, having upgraded from an R. I don't video, only stills, and mostly landscape, nature stuff, so rarely ever any high speed or continuous shooting. I have had the R8 show an overheating warning and shut down on a sunny 70°, low humidity day. This happened just today, twice. When it first happened about 6 weeks ago, I called Canon and they asked me to send it in. They turned it around in 24 hours with a note that it was acting normally. Obviously, i think that's garbage. No camera should overheat at those temperatures when shooting stills and especially when it's FAR below the stated maximum operating temperature of the camera.
I'm not the only person who has had this issue, based on a Google search, and it doesn't seem widespread, so don't discount complaints about overheating. This never happened with my EOS-R or M50, and in much hotter weather than this. It's ridiculous.
I told Canon that everytime this happens, I will send it back until they find a solution, which means it's going back this week.
Ill never vet this camera now, what did you end up doing
hows it going
Do you still have the camera? Did you try turning on the 'airplane mode'? Maybe that's why it was overheating in photo modes?
Very informative video, thanks for posting.