Black Magic Camera: The problem with the exploding battery
[17:01 Tue,25.March 2014 by Thomas Richter]
For a lot of attention (and confusion) has the video of Forest Gibson on YouTube attended by a rotation with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, with the see is like smoke is coming from the battery of the camera (something about driving legally Forest has the clip "Black Magic Camera Battery Exploded called "). After some initial confusion as to whether it has been traded to the internal or external battery, Forest has now clarified the situation and the events described in the following way: he reported that after one in about 20 minutes rotating the internal battery of only 7 month old camera (at normal temperatures) would have started to smoke suddenly, after which he cool feeling) Switronix PB70-BMCC would have Powerbase-70 Battery from the camera and hastily left the room to which he is using external (. The clip wasmade at Back Come - to see are still hanging in the air of smoke and a smoldering camera. The SSD used for recording was destroyed. VY = true eMbIhCNGYnE We are so far no similar incidents with the BMCC known, posted by Forest response from Blackmagic but is possible indicates that there is the incident of an exploding battery is still not been quite unique: u003ciu003e"There have been a small number of isolated incidents where It has been reported the battery had exploded. This is not a common occurrence, and we would like to gather as much information about the situation as possible to Ensure did it does not become common. We do apologize for the issue you & ve Encountered and would like to assist in getting an RMA set up to sort this out. Do let me know if you have any additionalu003c/iu003e. questions "A user reports of the assigned youtube comment thread by an incident with a BMCC, which was so hot during charging that the interior should be so melted that the SSD then no longer could fit We asked Blackmagic -. waiting there . they still with another opinion, the investigation on Forest Gibson Model For users of the BMCC is of course interesting, under what circumstances / setups such an incident can happen - the use of external battery is indeed due to the small Capacity of built-in batteries the normal case while shooting with the BMCC. u003ciu003e(Thanks to all users who have made u200bu200bus aware of this incident!)u003c/iu003e u003cimg src=