Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just leave the camera on! It has a great battery. Touch the button occasionally to keep it awake and it's always ready. I'm using various cards from Transcend HC to SanDisk Extreme - 32 and 64 GB. I don't notice much difference in startup time but I do keep the camera on all the time. Tina On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:50 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug < leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > Hola ? > > So, I got an M. And the startup time on it is SEVEN SECONDS. "Flip switch, > mash button, mash button, mash button, mash button, miss photo, swear, turn > off camera.? Someone said on like that this was related to the file system > used on the SD card ? the camera apparently polls the card for some reason > before you can take a photo. So I tried switching cards. > > 32GB 90/mbs/second card ? 7 second startup time > > 64GB 45/mbs/second card ? 4 second startup time > > So there is some progress, but it?s not intuitive ? the slower card starts > up faster. > > Anybody know if there?s a card that will get the camera?s startup time to > ?somewhere faster than nearly useless?? > > > Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html