Sony A6300 Overheating Solved?🔥🔥 5 Tips 

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!

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

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

BTW, turning OFF WiFi helps a lot.

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.

Great tips dude! Thank you very much!

That was really helpful. Thanks a bunch!

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

An informative and very well produced video. Thanks Michael.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am buying this rig using ur link.

simple and brillant. thank you mr guy!

Definitely good tips. I had overheating issues with my a6000 the one time I used it to record during a 20min+ session.I was already planning to buy that exact same cage. So an additional reason for me to buy it. Once I had will do a comparison with and without.

Wonderful, awesome tip.

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.

thanks for all the info bro. it helps a lot, God bless...

Thank you this was super helpful!

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.

this is very helpful and smart. THANKS.

Hi cameraguy, thanks A lot for your helpful tips! Do you know whether it is better to use external batteries instead of the 220V power charge cable if I do inside video recording, concerning the overheating issues?

good tips. enjoy your a6300. love my a6000

Great tips!

Very good video!!

Nice Ideas! Keep it up.

Great tips, thank you! I really like to shot with the A6300 (especially on my moza air gimbal), but the overheating is an issue on hot summer outdoor shoots. Did you try the firmware update too?

Very Helpful..Thank you....!!!

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)

Coo! I know my A6000 sucks in O.H. Now i have 6300 still O.H,..I tried over the screen and battery door, is same. I will try the cage next lol. Thanks for the tips bro. Sub'd!

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.

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

Great advice.

Great Info, Thanks :)

Great video! Also using adapters and adapted lenses on my a6000 was a huge help. I got about 3 hours in a room environment with just a commlite and sigma 17-50 ef mount, as well as a Nikon adapter and Nikon zoom sitting on a tripod swapping batteries, didn't even open the battery door between swaps, screen was open.

Great tips

Thank you for the helpful video. I have canon dslr cameras which have no acess to use external mic. I haven't got any help. Do you mind to give me any advice how to solve the problem by using any helpful gear if they is any available? Thanks.

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

Thanks, man!

Excellent video and very helpful. I'm trying to downscale my camera equipment from an FS5 and a7sII to a pair of a6300's and this video has been great. I bought the small rig cage and changed the batteries every 29 minutes and 50 seconds. I've now recorded indoors for 90 minutes without any overheating warnings. I think the combination of the cage and battery swapping is a good fix for the overheating problem, at least indoors at room temperature (72 degrees). I didn't leave the battery door open, I've just used the SmallRig cage and done battery swapping. Hopefully Sony releases a firmware update to address the issue so battery swapping isn't necessary. Just as a side note. Using Class 10 U1 cards works in 4k recording on the a6300 but overheating occurs earlier than using Class 10 U3 cards. Class 10 U1 cards record 4K video on the FS5 and a7sII without any problems.

Great video - I use my A7s with a small rig cage and external power with very affordable Sony L series batteries and it's a great setup for video. Would use a similar setup on something like the A6300 which I hope to purchase in the near future.

thanks for this!

Hi! Thanks 4 the info, do you think it works with the a5100?

Great tips!Thinking about upgrading my 6000k for the 6300. Looking for a do it all len, what do you recommend?

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

Do you have any suggestions on a cage that can be used with the a6300 and battery grip?

Thanks for the tips. My step are the Canon 5D Mark III and Sony a6300.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND I LIKE THE WHITE BALANCE OF THE VIDEO

Hello camera guy, other then RIG can i use L plate to minimize my a6000 overheat coz i cant find the smallrig in my country

Hey, nice Tips. Very appreciated! Can you tell if it is possible to record 45-50 minutes without overheating or even shutdown using these tricks?

Gret tips!! Haters always gonna hate. F em!!! I bought 2 A6300's and have been having great results shooting video, with no overheating issues....... The A6300 bang for the buck is amazing.... 4k, slog 2 and 3.... 120 per sec internal.... and you can buy 3 of them for the price of one A7s 2........ people will say oh but its not full frame...... well neither are most of the high in cameras that shoot TV, commercial and cinema .... that cost 20-100 K and up to rig out with lenses and gear to even use them........ Keep up the good work and tips Brother. Peace CM

First off I'm using a slightly older Sony camera(I wanted to pick up a 2nd camera that would give me a full frame field of view with speedbooster for vlogging and b-roll, a little throw around cine camera) that also had heating issues and fits into the same cage. So first off I actually opted for a grey/silver variant because black absorbs heat out in the sun and Im not sure about the a6300 coming in other colors but felt it was worth mentioning - also the cage allows you to put a grip on the right so you're not actually touching the camera at all which helps, I hadn't thought about it as a heat sink though. Would you consider getting thermal pads to stick to the base of the camera/where the camera comes close to contacting the cage? I'm sure in black cut to size it would be discreet and turn the cage into an actual heatsink. I was considering maybe making a heatsink mount with a sheet of copper that would fit behind the screen and attach to the back of the camera where the heat is and extend out to the left and up above the camera where you could attach maybe a Zalman CNPS2X while also bolting it to the cage for added stability - active cooling that is out of the way like another accessory and they're designed to be quiet... The other thing with the high speed SD cards - thats huge and works really well.

Terrific tip @that1cameraguy! Great video! I like how it also provides an external protection. Are you shooting outdoor videos and still being able to shoot that long with the sun beating on it? Mahalo much.

Great reviews and suggestions! I recently purchased a sony a7sii and love it, so much that I sold my nikon d810 to buy another sony. My question is would you replace a full frame with a full frame with another as7sii or should I save a bit a coin and go with the a6300 ?

awesome, thanks

What lens do you suggest for travel videos on a sony a6300 :)

Thank you for this. I'm currently considering whether to get this a6300 or a Canon 80D, for its AF capability in video. Hope you get the chance to test this methods outdoors too. As for other folks pointing out that Sony shouldn't have released a half perfect product, I think we all agree, but no need to put down anyone who's trying to share a tip or two on making it work.

Thanks for sharing

@that1cameraguy I saw your post on the a6000 overheating fix by ifixit. Did you every try again to get past the copper heat sink?

The cage also keeps your warm hands off the body of the camera. There are inexpensive handles that attach to the cage that will help even more. Great video... Thanks.

How to get 3 hours of nonstop 4K: Turn the camera off...

Hello, when you install the SmallRig Cage, can you still mount the camera with the cage to a tripod?

This is very helpful but I want to be able to take really long single takes so swapping out the batteries isn't an option. But opening the battery door and screen is a great idea!

Have just ordered this camera and now learning of this design fault so feel a bit meh. Does the camera only overheat in recording mode? Like if you are out and about shooting GVs now and again or filming a short film where the camera is not always constantly in record mode? The cage does seem like a good tip to overcome the issue.

hi - I just found a Dummy battery and charging lead that I used to use to externally charge my Sony NEX5n will using that help. PS the link you provided for the 'Small Rig' Cage doesn't work.

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

Hi, Though I only own a Nex 5t anx Nex 7, what I did is just paste a thin Copper piece on the back with heat transfer adhesive, only setback is you can't close the LCD panel completely, but I never encounter any overheating issue there after, now my only problem is the video stop recording after the file size hit 2Gb. Does this 2Gb limit issue happen on A6300? Cheers.

Can you do a review of the Sony a6400? thanks JC.

Nice very helpfull video... i can see that you have the batis lens, my question is, do you recommend this lens for recording videos? i can see that it doesnt have the rotary aperture(f-stop) ring on the lens, what do you think about that? Do you think i should go with this lens or another lens??... Is it easy/usefull to controle the aperture in the camera?

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 .

People want a consumer and non-professional camera to have the same capabilities as other professional-quality cameras! Anyway, these examples given here to avoid overheating seem valid to me especially if the grip is aluminum as it is a good heat sink! Removing the battery cover and moving the rear LCD away from the camera body is good advice! If this camera had EVF like my Sony A7 it would be enough to configure the EVF and turn off the rear LCD. EVF produces less heat because its consumption is lower.

I plan on buying this camera. I don't plan on using 4k often; but if i do, i would have recording times of about 5 minutes more or less. Would overheating be an issue that i should worry about?

Hello, i have a budget of 1300 euros almost from selling out my Nikon gear. Should i go for the a6300 sigma 16mm 1.4 and 30mm f1.4 or go for the a 6500 and only the sigma 30mm f1.4 ?? Thanks a lot in advance nice video mate !! :)

Great video, but did you get 3h of recording out of it?

what lenses do you have on the camera? and which wide angle lens would you recommend? i think you should do a video on lenses for this camera.

Hi. If I do very short rush in 4K during hours it will overheat all the same? Like 10 secondes each time? I never film during minutes.

Makes sense. I have not experienced overheating with my a6300 yet. That said I may still buy this for other reasons. What cage is this?

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.

Ive no doubt there will be many thinking why should I have to go to all this trouble to make the camera work properly. Shouldn't it be able to do all that Sony state without this extra hassle? Well of course it should, however these are great tips, effective work arounds to get the most out of the A6300 capabilities. Thanks for sharing.

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.

hello .¿ if the camera is turned on without recording. also begins to overheat ?.

would you buy the camera again knowing the overheating and the shutter roll? i'm considering it or the lumix g7...(or blackmagic pcc).

Cool video and very helpful information. Spend a grand for overheating problems and a half-hour at that. Investing in a Canon 80d as a rookie probably better for me but no 4k.

The 4K quality on this camera is insanely good, so we want to be able to shoot for longer without overheating. We do a lot of shoots at racetracks, so we're outdoors in the heat. I wonder how much the cage would help in that situation.

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

use compress air to cool it down it work for me

I'm in the market to get a A6300, would you say shooting 1-4minute clips on and off would still cause overheating? Cause so far I've been hearing people who record over 10+minutes have the overheating issue. So my assumption is the camera wouldnt overheat if I'm doing small clips every 2-4mins. What do you think?

I’m having a major issue with the camera humming during my recording. I don’t know what else to do to try to fix this😩😩

hey I ordered the cage from smallrig as well, how are you liking it so far? just a small question how long did urs take to ship its been 2 and a half weeks and I still havent gotten it in the mail Thanks!

What was the zeiss lens you had on your a6300?

How long can you record on 1080p and how long on 4k continuously without overheating(in average)??

Remind me of Dave Lee. Good Video.

Hi, I'm planing to buy this camera. I'm shooting music videos. Because of that, I rarely make continuous shots longer that 5 minutes (just when I'm recording the singing parts). Usually, I'm turning off the recording button every 10 - 20 seconds to reframe the shot. This type of shoot can go on even an hour without a break longer than 5 minutes. Can you please tell me, under these circumstances, can I expect overheating issues??

Thank you! I took your advice and bought a cage at the same time I bought the bodies… works like a champ! I don't understand why everyone is bitching so hard about the fact that this happens at all? I did a ton of research before I bought and I'm a "died in the wool" Canon guy… this camera is AMAZING and would be, even if it was twice the price! but at $1k… it's really the only choice! and the fact that is APSC and not "full framed" is even a better reason! (Correct me if I'm wrong here, but) All of the top digital cinema cameras, like the C100, C300, FS7,even the Red's… are all APSC / super 35 and NOT full framed. Add that it has way more (video) resolution that it's big brothers the A7xxx's and that's the final straw. HOWEVER… the "rolling shutter" (in 4k) is almost more than a deal breaker! ah but the resolution….(the "rolling shutter" is insanely bad!!)

Any link for the rig cage for the A6300. Had been searching for that

I usually shoot outdoor in sunny condition. Will the Smallrig put the heat into my cam instead?

I don't think you mentioned the settings you used for the camera. Were you recording with 100mbps, 4K, autofocus on, etc?

For Studio recording would using a mains AC Power Supply Adapter eliminate overheating issues (since there is no battery heating up inside the body)? Also will recording to external source through HDMI out (Decklink 4k, video assist 4k etc) help prolong recording time as far as overheating is concerned?

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Good.!.!.

Have you tried fast Sd cards. I've seen lately that faster cards have helped with the over heat problem. This camera is my first pick for my next camera. The only thing that has stopped me from buying it now is the over heating problem. All my vacations are during the winter flying to SE Asia where it's hot and sunny all the time. Over heating is a concern. Thanks for all you great informative videos. I really like your style!!!!!! Jon

Thanks

give a link where to buy cage rig? please