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It's absolutely clear that Canon made the camera work like this deliberately, to not canibalize their line of cinema cameras with a body intended for stills tha
by yholio 6y ago
It's absolutely clear that Canon made the camera work like this deliberately, to not canibalize their line of cinema cameras with a body intended for stills that is half the price. So yeah, it's a nice hack to force the design to deliver more than the manufacturer allowed it, but don't expect them to be happy about it.
- spuz 6y agoThe fact that the two thermal pads only partially cover the heat-spreader on the main processor is pretty damning evidence against Canon's claims that they did not deliberately cripple the camera's video functionality. It seems they want to encourage film makers to buy their more expensive cinema line of cameras.
- bserge 6y agoOf course, this has been their MO since DSLRs started being able to compete with dedicated camcorders in video quality. Nikon is an even worse offender.
- jolux 6y agoIt will still record 4K 30p just fine for as long as you want.
- formerly_proven 6y agoNikon's poor support for video (even though being one of the first to market) boggles the mind. They don't even have professional video cameras that could be cannibalized, I don't think they even make camcorders.
- jefftk 6y agoThat seems like a pretty strong evidence against this theory?
- jolux 6y agoI don’t think it’s intentional that not all DSLRs don’t also make great video cameras. The requirements are very different for great stills cameras vs great video cameras. Size and heat dissipation are the most significant.
- bserge 6y agoIt might not be intentional, but it sure doesn't hurt them. Buy a DSLR for photos, even if it can do great video, just get a separate camera for video. Probably the same reason laptop manufacturers design their cooling to be barely adequate. It would cost less than a dollar to make it dissipate the maximum TDP at full load (not just "normal" load). To make it easy, let's ignore ultrathin laptops - even mobile workstations have had the same terrible heat dissipation for over a decade, with very few exceptions.
- jolux 6y ago> It would cost less than a dollar to make it dissipate the maximum TDP at full load How do you figure? > It might not be intentional, but it sure doesn't hurt them. I just explained why video cameras have different requirements than DSLRs. Besides which, 4K30 or 1080p60 is plenty of unlimited video capability for most consumers. The camera can even do 8K30 and 4K60 for longer than most people take videos.
- bserge 6y agoI don't have any skin in this game, I'm just sharing my thoughts. Besides, in Europe they're limited to 30 minutes of recording (otherwise they're classed and taxed differently iirc). The laptop thing - using a bigger heatsink, or more copper, or better thermal paste, or multiple heatpipes instead of one (that was actually HP's solution to their overheating ZBooks) would cost pennies and would actually keep the CPU/GPU under throttling limits. I've repasted and modified enough laptop heatsinks to know it's a very easy thing to do. But the manufacturers don't care. I get it, a dollar saved on one machine is a lot of money overall. I'd rather have it cost $10 more but have a decent heatsink.
- jolux 6y agoSeems more likely a sign of being assembled quickly on an assembly line and not having been designed with the thermal mass to properly dissipate the heat of the device recording in 8K raw. This is primarily a stills device, after all.
- bserge 6y agoCanon and Nikon have had these "issues" for over a decade. In markets where they're not limited to 30 minutes of video recording by law, they would overheat in less than an hour. Yes, they're working as intended.