Tapes and Heat

[Mark Suszko]

Outdoors, touch the black parts of the top of your camera with bare fingers. If you can’t do that comfortably, I promise, the tape is too hot. Heat is not nearly as bad as humidity.

[Ryan Mast]

Absolutely right about the humidity.

I’ve shot for hours in the sun in up to 90 F without issues in Sony HDV and Canon DV cams.

One week I ran media for a summer camp with 80 F heat, but near 90% humidity and it shut down the tape transport on all of our cameras. Except the Sony A1U, but that one later died of a creeping corrosion from moisture damage…

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[Steve Wargo]

We shoot when it’s 116 in the shade and have never had a tape failure.

We have had human failure in broad proportions but tape, not at all. What is your situation?

Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!

Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .

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[First Last]

As an update, we used Panasonic DVCPRO tape outdoors in 118F without any problems.

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