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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Rainwoothegreat on December 25, 2013, 03:22:35 pm

Title: Problem with H4d tethered using thunderbolt to firewire
Post by: Rainwoothegreat on December 25, 2013, 03:22:35 pm

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

Title: Re: Problem with H4d tethered using thunderbolt to firewire
Post by: design_freak on December 26, 2013, 04:57:18 am

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.

Title: Re: Problem with H4d tethered using thunderbolt to firewire
Post by: Dustbak on December 26, 2013, 05:26:30 am

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.