#HTE

Does Your Camera Get Hot During Long Shoots? Here’s How to Hack a Heat Sink to It

Making things can be time-consuming, and if you’re recording your entire process on video, your camera can start to heat up as the minutes tick past. Industrial designer Eric Strebel found his Lumix GF7 getting so hot that it would shut itself off.

Strebel’s solution: Harvest an aluminum heat sink from an old PC and hack it to fit the camera. He uses his drill press as a milling machine, and I found his wire tip about starting from the middle pretty insightful:

http://www.core77.com/posts/68633/Does-Your-Camera-Get-Hot-During-Long-Shoots-Heres-How-to-Hack-a-Heat-Sink-to-It