High temperatures are all over the news at the moment. Records are being exceeded in Europe and the USA over recent weeks but I am going back a few weeks to Glastonbury and a few months to Cannes.
During Cannes I experienced a warning/error on the camera that I have never seen before. Ever. On any camera.
Working in 23/24 degrees, 3 or 4 times I had the yellow heat ⚠️ in the evf and once a red icon…
I was shooting bursts of less than a second at 10fps on AFC (two different lens) with reasonable gaps between (short intervals on same subject and then maybe a longer interval between subjects)
The rear and grip felt warm to touch (the camera was not in direct sunlight for most of these events and in fact one few of these events, in fact one “event” was after sunset). That said – once or twice it was probably only shaded my a white canvas.
Each time I needed to switch off the camera to let it cool. I found turning the frame rate down to 7 or 5 fps helped.
The problem repeated a few weeks back, just once, when photographing an act on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury (which was more that likely in full sun on a hot day).
Each time the issue occurs the camera slows down drastically but it did not take very long for the camera to return to a safe temperature once switched off.
(Speaking in very simple terms) Electronic devices always warm up. The higher the processing rates and denser the components, the higher the temperatures (as can be witnessed in APS-C sensors being more noisy vs “Full Frame”), so I would guess that a more powerful device would heat up quicker that older less powerful ones.
With one of the available accessories being a cooling fan, its fairly obvious that when shooting video, the operating temperate is marginal, however I did not expect that when shooting stills (however hard I pushed it).
To be frank, I am still not sure to think of this. I have now set the camera to the High Temperate Limit but I am not sure whether this is a safe option or not.
Given the high temperatures around the world at the moment, have any of you experienced this issue? What are your thoughts? Let me know.
More soon.
Julie Edwards-X 
I have not seen this on a camera before. But I’d question the wisdom of upping the limit at which the camera shuts down, because running at those temperatures is certainly more likely to result in an eventual, terminal, component breakdown, I’d rather reduce my frame rate and keep the upper tep limit as Standard.
I’ve only had one device overheat and burn out on me, a speedlight where I was kicking out so many high power blasts that the batteries burned my hand each time I swapped them out. Like an eejit I just shoved new ones in and kept going, oblivious to the little warning light. Result. Dead flash and £500 down the drain. 😦
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You are quite right of course and i keep questioning the decision.
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Did you ask Fuji about it? I’d be keen to hear their feedback.
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Im still waiting for feedback
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I had the xH-2 give the red warning and then shut down a couple of times while in Kuala Lumpur earlier in the year. I was only taking single images but it was a really hot day. The camera did cool off and restart after a short while. I assumed that it was a combination of the heat and the large files – but I may be wrong. No such problems in Europe though
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