I updated my UMP a month ago. Since then, some problems have been surfacing.
Some days the camera works just as it should. But like today, it almost cost us the whole shooting day. When I started the camera on set, the display had these 8 bit Nintendo colors and bars all over the place, even in menus. When I turned the camera off and back on, the fan started but the screen remained dark. After a minute of waiting I turned the camera off. Back on. Nothing.
I repeated this, unloaded the memory cards, changed batteries, nothing.
I let the camera off for 5 minutes.
Upon restart, bang, everything fine, like nothing ever happened. Until 2-3 minutes in, the screen went Nintendo again. I tried to enter the playback mode to check if there was something wrong with the footage I shot, since the display told me that the world's colors had been compressed to only 256 different ones. While reading the memory (Lexar 3500x CFast 2.0 128GB) the camera crashed, fan kept whirring but the camera's display just stayed offline.
Finally, after 10 or so more restarts, the camera came back on without the funky colors. It stayed on until we got the scene done. But that was one sweaty troubleshooting when everyone else was waiting for the camera to figure out if it wanted to join the production or not.
When I got back home I checked the footage: no problem there so phew.
Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior? I'm about to start a feature in two weeks and I'm not overly confident that UMP will get the job done.
Some days the camera works just as it should. But like today, it almost cost us the whole shooting day. When I started the camera on set, the display had these 8 bit Nintendo colors and bars all over the place, even in menus. When I turned the camera off and back on, the fan started but the screen remained dark. After a minute of waiting I turned the camera off. Back on. Nothing.
I repeated this, unloaded the memory cards, changed batteries, nothing.
I let the camera off for 5 minutes.
Upon restart, bang, everything fine, like nothing ever happened. Until 2-3 minutes in, the screen went Nintendo again. I tried to enter the playback mode to check if there was something wrong with the footage I shot, since the display told me that the world's colors had been compressed to only 256 different ones. While reading the memory (Lexar 3500x CFast 2.0 128GB) the camera crashed, fan kept whirring but the camera's display just stayed offline.
Finally, after 10 or so more restarts, the camera came back on without the funky colors. It stayed on until we got the scene done. But that was one sweaty troubleshooting when everyone else was waiting for the camera to figure out if it wanted to join the production or not.
When I got back home I checked the footage: no problem there so phew.
Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior? I'm about to start a feature in two weeks and I'm not overly confident that UMP will get the job done.
Last edited by Theofanis Kavvadas on Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
i9-9900K, 32GB, RTX2070
UMP G1 + P4K
UMP G1 + P4K