[Leica] Curious M10 startup time issue

Richard Man richard at richardmanphoto.com
Tue May 17 12:28:38 PDT 2016


Never is too strong a word. In theory, there must be no problem and no
difference where you format the drives. In practice, you may get better
performance from doing it in-camera, and you should do that especially if
some weird problems pop up.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> No offense, but it is my understanding that you should NEVER format camera
> cards in a computer.  Always format them in the camera you plan to shoot
> them in.
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Meino de Graaf <meino at innerside.demon.nl>
> wrote:
>
> > Kyle
> >
> > try to reformat the cards in a computer with an exFAT filesystem.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Meino de Graaf
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/17/2016 5:50 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug 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
> >>
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