Blackmagic makes some great MFT and EF mount Cinema cameras but this one from Forest Gibson just got…exploded! Watch the video if you don’t believe this can happen 🙂
Petapixel reports:
It’s worth noting that this seems to be a one-time deal. No other Blackmagic cameras have done this that we or planet5D can find and BM has responded to the situation quickly and professionally to make sure that it isn’t a more widespread problem.
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another nail in the coffin for Blackmagic cameras. Avoiding at all costs.
Then you’d better avoid buying or using any make or model of laptop, notebook, tablet, camera, or mobile phone. And definitely don’t book any flights that use the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The battery technology in all of them is Li-ion, and yes, they’re a fire risk. That’s the price you pay for battery life – if we were to go back to older technologies you’d have significantly reduced battery life. Oh, by the way they’ve fixed the Dreamliner…. by packing the batteries in a massive steel box.
If I recall correctly the Apple Iphone has had problems both with their batteries and chargers. I’m not a BMCC owner, but see no reason to avoid just due to one freak incident.
Remember all those Sony laptops that got burnt to a crisp?
I heard of someone who was killed by a lightning strike. Another nail in the coffin for the outdoors. I will never go outside again.
I heard about someone who died during their sleep.
I’m never sleeping ever again!
it is the same, whren american drivers ( atomatic-longline-60mph-drugg) first take a
manual gearbox porsche 911-and run in a shop…. in a parkinghouse…
how many BATTERYS are produced/ second/day/week…. and how many
i-phones
galaya
smething else explode?
how many microwves… this rumors have all the work effect of same
chickken run…
What!? That is the most unintelligible post I have ever run into.
the title is wrong, the battery is the one that exploded (it says so in the video), not the camera maybe they were using a cheap third party battery…. as any battery can explode with overheat
The battery is built in to the camera on the non-compact blackmagic camera.
Nitpicking.
Li-Ion batteries do NOT explode. They expand and melt.
“Camera explodes” is perfectly correct, because it was the camera case which allowed for the pressure of bulging li-ion battery to build up – and then, when the pressure has broke the case, explode.
Nitpicking indeed.
Seems to be the first and only case reported. Might be more of a freak accident than an issue.
Official battery? Or aftermarket?
I have been contemplating to buy 3rd party batteries, guess I need to change my plan now.
I don’t see evidence of anything exploding…
Anyone using Progo batteries on their OMD? I was planing on saving a few buck and buying a backup battery from them instead of the more expensive Oly one, but after seeing this I am thinking maybe third party batteries are not safe lol ??
what the hell !! amazing.
At least this explosion would have had high dynamic range.
Good thing it had a toy-sized four-thirds sensor. A full-frame sensor would have taken out the whole room…
Damage caused by a battery issue has to do with battery size rather than the sensor size.
Right.
I was joking, playing the part of the Full-Frame trolls who have to comment after every news story about how the sensor is tiny…
Thanks. One never knows about the comments here, which is why I will read the articles but do not make comments very often 🙂
Lithium ion batteries do explode – the technical term is “vent with flame.” Obviously there was some heat involved, since there was smoke. Either the battery shorted internally, or the current drain of continuous video overheated the battery. If the battery compartment was not watertight, pressure would not build up inside the camera, just the individual cells of the battery. And yes, the fumes can be toxic and cause permanent lung damage.
Are we having fun yet?
Black Tragic; right; that is the last time I use batteries in my camera