Canon R6 I Canon R6 Overheating Issues

[Farmgal21]

Hello,
I have had the R6 for several months. I've had No issues with normal shooting or even long exposure. Over heating occurs when I shoot sports.... 3 times over heating has occured, the grip actually gets hot! The first 2 times it was 80 degrees plus so ehhh.....maybe thats why plus the continous tracking. Saturday it was cool and overcast and by 3rd quarter the camera was over heating. Firmware is current. Any thoughts? Do I need to send it in or request a different one?

 

[MaraLee]

I was shooting in an upstairs studio within a metal building on a 93º day with no AC for about 6 hours when I got a warning on my LED screen. I turned the camera off to let it cool down, but I got the warning again a few minutes later. I had to keep shooting at that point, but the camera never shut down. Later, I looked up the warning icon and it was just a message saying that the temperature was high enough that, had I switched to video at that point, the settings I had in place could make the camera overheat. So it never really did overheat, I just mistook the icon.

So, if yours actually shut down and it wasn't just the icon I saw, I'd personally have it checked out. Mine was working for hours in temps over 100º and it did fine as long as I didn't use 4k video.

 

[Farmgal21]

I was shooting in an upstairs studio within a metal building on a 93º day with no AC for about 6 hours when I got a warning on my LED screen. I turned the camera off to let it cool down, but I got the warning again a few minutes later. I had to keep shooting at that point, but the camera never shut down. Later, I looked up the warning icon and it was just a message saying that the temperature was high enough that, had I switched to video at that point, the settings I had in place could make the camera overheat. So it never really did overheat, I just mistook the icon.

So, if yours actually shut down and it wasn't just the icon I saw, I'd personally have it checked out. Mine was working for hours in temps over 100º and it did fine as long as I didn't use 4k video.

Thanks MaraLee. It never shut down but did get that same warning as you. That makes me feel a bit better about the situation.

 

[MaraLee]

I was very relieved to learn my camera wasn't overheating taking stills.

 

[Jake Shoots Birds]

I have it on good authority that the R5 & R6 will never turn off due to overheating when shooting stills, only video. When it does overheat it's generally due to ambient temps (like the hot upstairs room) or situations where the EVF is on constantly for long periods of time. From what this Canon Pro Rep has said there is no risk to the camera or sensor and that the warning indicator seems to have been included in stills mode out of an overabundance of caution by the engineers but has ultimately done more harm than good as photographers have shut down cameras and missed photos in situations where there was no reason to do so.

 

[MaraLee]

I have it on good authority that the R5 & R6 will never turn off due to overheating when shooting stills, only video. When it does overheat it's generally due to ambient temps (like the hot upstairs room) or situations where the EVF is on constantly for long periods of time. From what this Canon Pro Rep has said there is no risk to the camera or sensor and that the warning indicator seems to have been included in stills mode out of an overabundance of caution by the engineers but has ultimately done more harm than good as photographers have shut down cameras and missed photos in situations where there was no reason to do so.

Thanks, Jake. I haven't heard of an R6 shutting down, but I've read anecdotal situations where the occasional R5 has shut down when the user said they were only doing stills. These instances could have been (falsely) reported by Nikon or Sony fanboys - who knows?

 

[Jake Shoots Birds]

Thanks, Jake. I haven't heard of an R6 shutting down, but I've read anecdotal situations where the occasional R5 has shut down when the user said they were only doing stills. These instances could have been (falsely) reported by Nikon or Sony fanboys - who knows?

Without getting conspiratorial, the person I spoke with has done extensive testing around this (it's his job to know and verify this stuff) and outside of 4K video he's never been able to get the R5 to shut down.