{"id":20247,"date":"2025-11-07T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creatorkitdepot.com\/?p=20247"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:06:19","slug":"videographers-might-have-to-worry-about-the-canon-r6-mark-iii-overheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creatorkitdepot.com\/?p=20247","title":{"rendered":"Videographers Might Have to Worry About the Canon R6 Mark III Overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-800x420.jpg\" alt=\"A Canon EOS R6 Mark II mirrorless camera is shown without a lens, set against a dramatic red and orange smoky background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-824612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-800x420.jpg 800w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-320x168.jpg 320w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-400x209.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating-550x288.jpg 550w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Videographers-Might-Have-to-Worry-About-the-Canon-R6-Mark-III-Overheating.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In <em>PetaPixel<\/em>\u2018s review of the new Canon R6 Mark III, the lack of a fan versus the C50 \u2014 which uses the same sensor and has many of the same video features \u2014 was mentioned as one of the reasons a videographer might want to go with the cinema-focused body. When it comes to the R6 Mark III, we do see overheating as a possible concern in some use cases. <\/p>\n<p>Jordan Drake typically runs a battery of overheating tests for every camera <em>PetaPixel<\/em> reviews and did the same in this case. Consider his findings here an addendum to the full review published on November 6, since we added one more overheating test to the group since the publication of that review: open gate. <\/p>\n<p> <center\/> <\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that we have not encountered an overheating problem with any modern camera with integrated active cooling, and that includes the C50. <\/p>\n<p> <center\/> <\/p>\n<p>All of <em>PetaPixel<\/em>\u2018s overheating tests are conducted indoors at an ambient 21 degrees Celsius. For the R6 Mark III, the heat recording threshold was set to \u201cHigh\u201d and the camera was allowed to cool for one hour between tests. All tests were conducted using the battery only, with no charging through the USB-C port. <\/p>\n<h3>The Results<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4Kp30 Video at the \u201cFine\u201d Setting:<\/strong> 103 minutes of recording before the battery died, with no overheating. <\/li>\n<li><strong>4Kp60 Video at the \u201cFine\u201d Setting:<\/strong> 28 minutes of recording before the camera overheated and shut down. <\/li>\n<li><strong>4Kp24 RAW Video:<\/strong> 42 minutes of recording before the CFexpress card overheated. The camera did not overheat, nor did it provide a camera overheat warning. <\/li>\n<li><strong>7Kp30 Open Gate Video:<\/strong> 34 minutes of recording before the camera overheated and shut down. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results show that in three out of the four most common video recording use cases, something will overheat and cut recording time. The 103 minutes of 4Kp30 is the benchmark of how long the camera can record, given that it only stopped recording due to the battery dying, which means that doubling the frame rate to 60p cut record times by 73%. Shooting in Open Gate cut record times by 67%. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-iframe\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\">\n<p><iframe title=\"The Canon C50 is the PROFESSIONAL\u2019S Choice\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d7INbniVao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shooting in RAW is a more complicated discussion, since doing so didn\u2019t actually cause the camera to overheat. Instead, we got the card overheat warning \u2014 which is a separate warning from a camera overheat \u2014 and the R6 Mark III stopped recording. While that\u2019s not necessarily an R6 Mark III problem, we are not seeing this limitation with cameras with an integrated fan like the C50. As a result, we don\u2019t really have a choice other than to list this as a limitation. Shooting in RAW cuts maximum record times by 59%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-iframe\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Canon R6 Mark III Review: What CAN&#039;T It Do?!\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xInUJn_SG8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There will be plenty of video shooters who will never ask the camera to record more than 4Kp30 \u201cFine\u201d video footage, especially since the R6 Mark III includes a nice set of C-log options \u2014 for those people, the C50 got <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/11\/06\/the-canon-r6-mark-iii-makes-the-c50-far-less-compelling-for-most-people\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">a whole lot less compelling<\/a> when the R6 Mark III was announced. It is also uncommon, although not unheard of, to see long takes at 60p, and that is unfortunately where R6 Mark III record times are their weakest. Filmmakers will have to decide if they care enough about long RAW and Open Gate recording sessions to let these limitations move them towards a camera with active cooling. <\/p>\n<p>What all this means is that videographers and filmmakers now have to make a choice if they want to use a Canon camera with this particular sensor: they can either elect for active cooling, which doesn\u2019t limit record times due to heat, or they can choose to accept that limitation in exchange for an electronic viewfinder and in-body image stabilization. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-iframe\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\">\n<p><iframe title=\"The Lumix S1 II is Panasonic&#039;s TOP Performer... for a Price\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivmCqR94M-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is, frankly, a crummy choice to have to make, made even more irritating by the fact that it didn\u2019t <em>have<\/em> to be this way. <\/p>\n<p> <center\/> <\/p>\n<p>Canon elected not to include active cooling in the R6 Mark III just as it chose not to include an EVF or IBIS in the C50. We know there is a way to offer it all, since Panasonic Lumix chose to include all of these features <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/05\/13\/panasonic-lumix-s1-ii-review-pricey-powerful-and-video-centric\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">in the S1 II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In PetaPixel\u2018s review of the new Canon R6 Mark III, the lack of a fan versus the C50 \u2014 which uses the same sensor and has many of the same video features \u2014 was mentioned as one of the reasons a videographer might want to go with the cinema-focused body. 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