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Camera not starting - Wooden Camera Blueshape V-lock

Christoffer Glans

Christoffer Glans

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I was testing out the gear for a shoot tomorrow and when I attached my Red Brick to the WC Blueshape V-lock (lowmount) the camera didn't start. I've been asking before about the clicking noises in the mount when it's starting up, but no one, including WC has said that there's anything wrong with that. However, it's always clicking a few times within the mount before starting the camera, not at all like proprietary mounts which starts the camera directly. Now, when it started clicking it just stopped after a few of them and nothing happens. I tried switching the battery and start up the camera and I then charged the battery causing the weird startup and now it seems it works again.

However, I need to know if there's actually something wrong that might fail at a later date. Do anyone else's mount click like mine before startup? Is there some kind of internal battery in it that kicks it on that was depleted? Why did the mount behave like this?
 
Mine did the same...swapped to the V-Lock I/O Expander and all is good...I know it's not a solution per se but it's just how I solved it.

The BlueShape plate is insanely good (probably the best) and Wooden Camera products are generally quite good but I've had only troubles with their DSMC2 battery mount for IDX or Blueshape plates.

BTW it could also be that the battery can't give enough Amperes to sustain the peak draw which happen at start up and so it takes time to charge capacitors?? I don't know.
 
My two units did the same, on two different bodies.

WC asked to rollback to previous firmware, but nothing changed. I'm using the Vlock expander now, but it's a shame as I really liked the no-module option.

What is weird though :
I have a omod module who detects the voltage as the Led is on. But the camera won't boot.
 
i learned long long time ago that 3rd part electronics is a risk, sometimes works sometimes doesnt.
 
jordan levy said:
i learned long long time ago that 3rd part electronics is a risk, sometimes works sometimes doesnt.
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Yeah, but the WC mount is the only mount (except for tilta now) that has the low-mode for the battery. Otherwise I can't use Red's own top handle with my Red bricks. As long as Red doesn't have their own low-mount mode for V-lock batteries, I'm stuck with third party for it and it really sucks. The other solutions, like increasing the height of the top handle is just dumb in my opinion and makes the camera unusually high or using the smaller handle which isn't practical at all for some hand held shots.

Now I only got this problem once, but this and the fact that the latest firmware doesn't show battery percentage just makes this whole thing tedious to say the least.

I don't understand why Red just doesn't make a low-mounted V-lock mount. They do all kinds of other things with the design of the cameras but a low-mount v-lock seems too much to ask.
 
Sounds like the battery may not take the power surge. Old weak battery and or lots of accessories pulling power at the same time from that battery is probably the cause.
 
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