topic a55 Camera overheating when recording Movie in Alpha & NEX interchangeable lens cameras

a55 Camera overheating when recording Movie

brhubba — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:55:05 GMT

I have taken movies before in Florida and have never had this problem. On Saturday, when the ambient temperature was below average and I had been recording for about 8 minutes, I suddenly had the recording stop with the error message ' camera overheating' appear on the screen. I switched off and left it a few minutes and then took some stills and the camera worked O.K. Any suggestions ?

a55 Camera overheating when recording Movie

Blencogo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:29:41 GMT

This is a known issue and common to most DSLR cameras to some degree or other when shooting movies or continuous still images. However, the in-camera steady shot adds to this heating in Alpha cameras as power is being used to constantly move the sensor to counteract camera shake.

Sony have released a guide which would appear to agree with your observations - at 20 degrees the continuous shooting time is 9 minutes with SteadyShot ON and 29 minutes with steadyshot OFF. This time decreases rapidly at higher temperatures.

Have a look at this Sony link: -

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?news_id=424&mdl=SLTA33

a55 Camera overheating when recording Movie

brhubba — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:01:11 GMT

Many thanks for that information and promptness of your reply, your expert knowledge is very much appreciated.

a55 Camera overheating when recording Movie

Sam_e_p — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:15:00 GMT

If you are trying to squeeze every last second out of A55 or NEX film recording times then raise the LCD screen.