[Leica] Curious M10 startup time issue

Richard Man richard at richardmanphoto.com
Tue May 17 12:05:47 PDT 2016


This is with the latest CMOS model?!! There is no excuse for this sort of
behavior, unless it's from leica :-)

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:34 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:

> I assume you mean an M(240)? There is a bit about this on the LUF, I find
> Lexar cards work well but others have done tests with different makes.....
> I never turn the camera off when shooting and have it on longest sleep time
> (10 mins?).
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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
>
>
>
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