Problem with H4d tethered using thunderbolt to firewire

[Rainwoothegreat]

I bought a h4d 40 couple days ago, today I tethered my camera with my mac retina pro using the thunderbolt to FireWire ,after 20 shots the temp on bottom of the camera digital back start raising , is this a normal situation or it's problem with my camera.  Plzz help

[design_freak]

First try to test your camera with firewire (ask somebody who have older macbook pro with firewire) maybe it is something wrong with your camera.

[Dustbak]

Yes the digital back gets warm when shooting. This is normal what is not normal is depending on how warm/hot it gets. Warm is normal, hot is not.