Ian Campbell
August 8th, 2009, 04:04 PM
Hey,
Just got back from shooting a lecture today with two Z7U's. Both cameras were shooting with fully charged genuine Sony F-970 batteries. They are about a year old and in good condition.
One of the cameras had been in standby for about 10mins. and just before we were about to shoot the following message appeared on camera's LCD screen "This battery doesn't work on this camera" with a C:04 error code. I checked the Z7U manual, and the error message means you need to put an Infolithium battery on the camera. Well, the battery IS a genuine Sony Infolithium battery as purchased from B&H in 2008.
My concern is that I almost lost one of the cameras on the shoot today due to the "paranoid" nature of the Sony "fake battery" sensor. Like you, I can't afford to have a camera shut down needlessly because of a false positive reading when trying to detect non-Sony batteries in use. I find the Sony on-camera lights really picky with batteries -- but this is the first time one of our two Z7U's "spit out" a real Sony battery.
If this has happened to others, maybe Sony should relax the security on their camcorders. The camera is useless if it won't even stay powered on when you are using a genuine - and very costly - Sony battery.
After returning from the shoot I reattached the battery and got the same message and camera shut down. I took off the battery and tried again, and it's working fine. I don't get it!!!???
Any thoughts?
Thanks . . .
Ian
Just got back from shooting a lecture today with two Z7U's. Both cameras were shooting with fully charged genuine Sony F-970 batteries. They are about a year old and in good condition.
One of the cameras had been in standby for about 10mins. and just before we were about to shoot the following message appeared on camera's LCD screen "This battery doesn't work on this camera" with a C:04 error code. I checked the Z7U manual, and the error message means you need to put an Infolithium battery on the camera. Well, the battery IS a genuine Sony Infolithium battery as purchased from B&H in 2008.
My concern is that I almost lost one of the cameras on the shoot today due to the "paranoid" nature of the Sony "fake battery" sensor. Like you, I can't afford to have a camera shut down needlessly because of a false positive reading when trying to detect non-Sony batteries in use. I find the Sony on-camera lights really picky with batteries -- but this is the first time one of our two Z7U's "spit out" a real Sony battery.
If this has happened to others, maybe Sony should relax the security on their camcorders. The camera is useless if it won't even stay powered on when you are using a genuine - and very costly - Sony battery.
After returning from the shoot I reattached the battery and got the same message and camera shut down. I took off the battery and tried again, and it's working fine. I don't get it!!!???
Any thoughts?
Thanks . . .
Ian