is my j3 dying?

Hi all,

anytime I use my j3 over 5 minutes, especially when I shoot 5fps bursts it starts to stop working. By that I mean that the screen freezes (live view does not show what is going live anymore and the screen remains at the last shown frame). None button reacts.. and so on.

What would be your opinion on this?

Regards

Alex

have you tried doing a reset?

good point.. i will try.. I think so that this is not the problem.. after using it non stop for minutes and bursting.. it turns hot. I guessed so far that there is somehow the problem related with the heating.

Regards

Alex

Dervast said:

good point.. i will try.. I think so that this is not the problem.. after using it non stop for minutes and bursting.. it turns hot. I guessed so far that there is somehow the problem related with the heating.

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The only reason I can think of is a failing battery, do you have spare?!

By any chance is that happening with the 10-30mm lens?

Nikon made an announcement about problems with this lens.

Tord S Eriksson said:

Dervast said:

good point.. i will try.. I think so that this is not the problem.. after using it non stop for minutes and bursting.. it turns hot. I guessed so far that there is somehow the problem related with the heating.

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The only reason I can think of is a failing battery, do you have spare?!

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Good guess. If it's dying, it's internal resistance will rise, which will produce more internal heat than usual as it's used. If the OP uses the J3 until its battery is fully depleted, the time to fully recharge it will be proportional to its remaining capacity. The manual says that the EN-EL20 reaches full charge in 2 hours, so if the OP's battery takes only 1 1/2 hours to charge, it has gone beyond the point that is usually considered to be time to replace the battery.

It can still be used and probably has several years of life left in it, but not in a camera like the J3 (and Nikon's other N1 cameras) that can use so much power. People shouldn't forget this. The V1 uses a larger battery, the same EN-EL15 that many of Nikon's DSLRs use, including the D1700 and D800 models. That such a large battery is used in such a small camera is because the N1 cameras can gulp power at a prodigious rate and when they do, they get HOT, and that causes problems.