Brad Ballew
May 1st, 2012, 07:56 AM
So this past Saturday night I covered a small movie premier which consisted of a couple of sit down interviews. I was shooting on my 5D MKIII and went the whole night without any problems, except for the very last interview at the end of the night. About 2 minutes into the interview the camera just shut off. My first thought was, "Did it overheat?", but it had been off for about 10 minutes prior to this interview.
So I turned it back on and started shooting again. A few minutes later it turned off again. I decided to pull out the battery (which was a fresh battery I had just put in about halfway through the previous interview.) and I put in another one. After that, I didn't have any problem. I am trying to figure out if that was a bad battery (it did show to have a full charge, and it was one of my generic batteries) or could it have been something funky going on in the camera and pulling the battery out let it reset?
I have not shot with that battery again, I separated it from the rest in case it was bad. Anyone run into an issue like this?
So I turned it back on and started shooting again. A few minutes later it turned off again. I decided to pull out the battery (which was a fresh battery I had just put in about halfway through the previous interview.) and I put in another one. After that, I didn't have any problem. I am trying to figure out if that was a bad battery (it did show to have a full charge, and it was one of my generic batteries) or could it have been something funky going on in the camera and pulling the battery out let it reset?
I have not shot with that battery again, I separated it from the rest in case it was bad. Anyone run into an issue like this?