[Leica] Curious M10 startup time issue

[Steve Barbour]

> On May 17, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> I think that if you sacrifice a goat by the light of the full moon to the gods of Wetzlar, all will be well and you shall be redeemed.


if the goat has the right name.

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> 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:
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>>> 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
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>>>> On 5/17/2016 5:50 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug wrote:
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>>>>> 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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