Sony A6300 Overheating Solved?🔥🔥 5 Tips

Learn how to increase your 4k recording time on the Sony a6300. In this video, I give you several tips to increase the 4k recording time on the Sony a6300. You can simply use these basic techniques to improve the recording time of your camera and prevent overheating.

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[RanggaDjati]

This guy actually gave a good tips to overcome the problem that others seems just to rant about! Thank bro, this is what I've been looking for!

[twincitymedia]

Bought the rig, opened the screen, the battery was exhausted and the SD card filled up shooting 4k with no overheating! Thanks man!

[thatcameraguy]

The main tool that I use to help with overheating is talked about at 4:21 for those of you wanting to jump to that part.

[MichaelMa]

Sony should watch this video and should feel embarrassed at their engineering.

[markacevedo]

I respect the ingenuity of you trying to solve this cameras problems. however, the fact that this video is NOT a parody of the camera's inherent engineering issues is a parody in itself.

[toddwaddingtonproductions]

My inner geek was very excited to hear about the cage conducting heat away from the camera. My dad would have figured this out. He was a machinist but could have been an engineer. Great tips for any camera I would think. Thanks

[pitrescatorce]

Some people crying for the 4k overheating, ok, buy a nikon d5 (6000 dollars camera), can shoot 3min in 4k only... The a6300 cost 1000$ and you want all the best. Is like buy a 3000$ car but want the same as a ferrari....

If you know the limitations you can do good jobs. I have this camera and knowing that i think is the best camera in that price, slog is just magic... I came from the canon 5d mk ii and the sony is an other world.

A friend have the gh4 with vlog and it's so good but i think the sony is a little bit better, and the slog its free, vlog costs him 100$. And in low light terms, a6300 is so good with an aps-c sensor. In the other hand, i like the touch screen and gh4 menus. This are the best two options for me right now, a6300 and gh4. G7 seems good but i don't now if it can shoot in vlog, for me it's important for post processing.

This is my personal opinion! I'm not a sony fanboy, just a person how try to buy the best in price/quality range. I recommend it for sure, i would buy it another time!

(sorry for my english)

[guygutierrez]

I am very much considering buying this camera. As a complete novice to film making (and currently applying to film school when I retire) this camera was suggested to me by a friend going to UH film school and your video helped me greatly and gave me confidence its a solid purchase at this price point. Thanks so much for your video and the tips. All will be used and can't wait to film my first short.

[OsamaBaig]

Great tips! I record podcasts on my A6300 and was looking for solutions to cool down the camera

[SmokeMonster]

This is brilliant and you're the only person online who covered this. Thanks for the video!!!

[mattnev]

cage would also help when hand held as it would take your hand off the grip and alloy airflow in-between camera and your skin

[jeanspatial]

simple and brillant. thank you mr guy!

[jeffwisener]

Here is another tip; I use a Feelworld Lut7 external monitor while shooting. It is fastened to a UUrig camera cage by using the UUrig R059 camera monitor bracket (strongest bracket to the monitor). The external monitor mounts 2 sony f970 batteries on the back of the monitor. The monitor has a power out jack and I run power to the A6300 by using a dummy battery. This week I shot from 8am to 545pm straight in the Indonesian tropical sun with zero overheating problems. The 2 f970 batteries will power both the camera and monitor for 5-6 hours. You can change 1 battery out while allowing the other battery to run the monitor and camera and keep filming. I believe using the dummy battery helps reduce heat. The bottom line is I am shooting all day long in direct tropical sun and have zero heating issues with over 9 hrs continuous 4k shooting .

[majestic-skies]

Someone needs to make a watercooled cage for the camera lol these solutions are pretty impractical for most situations.

[wattmaster]

You deserved more views. Subscribed! And thanks for the useful tips!

[rastrup]

An informative and very well produced video. Thanks Michael.

[kineticuncertainty]

I am doing research on buying a new camera. This was one of my top picks until i found out about the heating issues.

[travelnonsense]

Handy to see the Smallrig cage on the 6300 here, I was kinda thinking about picking one up anyway, but that's a definite added bonus with the heat dissipation.

[accon]

This was helpful, thanks. Another approach - if you are doing long interviews or similar - is to connect the camera via HDMI to a Blackmagic Mini Monitor or similar and a laptop and record externally using Davinci Resolve. This way the camera is powered and records externally. You still need to keep a battery inside though - the camera will still use it a tiny bit - even if it doesn't look like it. Other thoughts are - recording UHD uses LESS power than HD because the processor does less and as others say in the comments - turning wifi off helps.

[slr]

After 2 years, the damage has been done to this camera. I think this is what everyone will always remember with the Sony a6300.

Infamously overheating.

Firmware updates help but they are only a quick band-aid solution to this. The Sony a6700 or whatever next has to overcome this. Designing and implement better hardware or software to avoid overheating.