[Leica] Curious M10 startup time issue

[Nathan Wajsman]

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> On 17 May 2016, at 21:28, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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