Sigma subtly trolls Canon on Twitter over overheating issues
Sep 2, 2020
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Canon’s taken quite a bit of flack around the overheating issues of the EOS R5 and EOS R6 mirrorless cameras. Canon has announced new firmware for the EOS R5 which extends the recording time a little, although it’s not going to make much practical difference to many would-be Canon filmmakers.
It’s not often, though, that we see a company making a subtle little dig at a competitor for issues with their gear, though. Sigma posted a tweet that, while it doesn’t specifically call out Canon or the EOS R5 does have a rather obvious intent, extolling the not-overheating benefits of a big heatsink in the Sigma fp.
Did you know? A large magnesium heat sink is mounted between the LCD and SIGMA fp camera body. This achieves highly effective heat dissipation and prevents overheating at high temperatures or in long hours of use.
Learn more: https://t.co/jzLyB84BAh#SIGMAfp pic.twitter.com/9cr09XEK9I
— SIGMA America (@Sigma_Photo) August 31, 2020
Sigma’s tweet reads…
Did you know? A large magnesium heat sink is mounted between the LCD and SIGMA fp camera body. This achieves highly effective heat dissipation and prevents overheating at high temperatures or in long hours of use.
We can’t blame them really. While their Tweet might appear to be an obvious dig to most of us, “not overheating” does seem to be an actual selling point for small form factor mirrorless cameras that shoot video these days. Sony’s been plagued by overheating issues for years, although they have mostly cleared up these days. Now the Canon EOS R5 is suffering from them in a pretty major and public way.
Sure, the Sigma fp can’t shoot 8K like the Canon EOS R5, nor can it do 4K 120fps like the Sony A7S III, but it can shoot internal Cinema DNG RAW video, with a full-frame sensor for a very long time. And it also puts out RAW over HDMI for recording to ProRes RAW on the Atomos Ninja V or Blackmagic BRAW on the Video Assist 12G.
It’s an impressive little camera for what it costs.
Now, while we’re taking little jabs at companies… Where’s that full-frame Foveon, Sigma?
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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9 responses to “Sigma subtly trolls Canon on Twitter over overheating issues”
This is beautiful hahaha :D
Maybe mirrorless cameras just have overheating issues in general? Sony is three bodies deep in the market and users still report overheating issued in the A7s ii.
Apparently not for Sigma. :)
“users still report overheating issued in the A7s ii”
Because the A7S II hasn’t physically changed from what the A7S II was like when it was released in 2015? Why would you expect it to be any different now?
Of course it doesn’t have overheating issues, the Sigma can’t do many of the things Sony, Panasonic and Canon cameras can do but they sure do make great lenses :)
And there are plenty of things Sony, Panasonic and Canon cameras can’t do that the fp can do as well. Internal raw video for a start (withotu overheating). :)
With MagicLantern and an old 5dii I can record internal raw video. Or I could just get a Blackmagic camera. Nothing new or special about internal Raw recording but please do come back if you’ve got something interesting to say. Not sure why you’re so keen on me, sorry but I’m taken. So please go bother someone else with your nonsense.
Hacking your camera doesn’t count, lol. And the Pocket 4K isn’t exactly known for its stills capabilities. I’m not “keen” on you. In fact, I think I’ll block you, because it’s impossible to have any kind of intelligent and reasonable conversation with you. How’s that? In fact, given that I actually wrote the articles you’re criticising and I apparently have nothing interesting to say, why are you even still here? :)
You have written many of the articles I have commented on, I already knew that, but it wasn’t until either this or the one about the Ronin where you actually responded to my comment and told me to put tape on my $800 gimbal.
You did however fail to comment back on the article about the R5 overheating hack, even though hacking your camera apparently doesn’t count. You’re sounding like the guy from EOSHD and I am only responding to your harsh tone of your comments with the equivalent. I didn’t know all article comments were directed towards the author either.
But obviously I find your articles interesting otherwise I wouldn’t comment on so many. And I understand the FP doesn’t overheat but my initial comment was aimed towards the other brands that have been on the market, not the Sigma, as all the others seem to have those issues.
Covering up logos with tape is not uncommon in the photo and video industry. It’s not something that most decent clients even care about. All that interests them is results.
I pointed out the fp because this article is specifically about the Sigma fp.
As to the R5 overheating thing… I didn’t even see your comment. I wasn’t being harsh. And you specifically responded to my comment, so obviously the comment was aimed at me. ;)
I won’t be responding to anymore of your comments, though. Don’t worry. :)