viramati Posted July 22, 2013 Share #1 Posted July 22, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi All I was wondering if the black out time after you have taken a shot when using LV is something that is effected by SD card speed or whatever. This isn't really a problem for static objects, landscape etc (when I would use it most anyway) but with people shots it really becomes annoying. So was just wondering what the techies thought and if people have found if different cards help. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted July 22, 2013 Share #2 Posted July 22, 2013 I think it is affected by the card. The faster the card the shorter ( with a limit obviously) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted July 22, 2013 Share #3 Posted July 22, 2013 Haven't seen a significant difference between slow (Transcend SD 2GB) and fast (Lexar 600x 16 GB) cards but the black-out is so painful that i haven't found the courage to do a more serious test so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindolfi Posted July 22, 2013 Share #4 Posted July 22, 2013 Measured the blackout time in S mode, using the EVF and it was 2.1 seconds consistently with a 90 MB/sec card (I measured 45 MB/sec read and write): the Sandisk Extreme Pro. The same blackout of 2.1 seconds I found with a 14.9/4.7 MB/sec read/write card (old blue Sandisk 16 Gbyte card without specs) So blackout time is not influenced by read/write speed in the cards I tried. That makes the observation by Jaap with the Lexar Pro 600x card (a blackout of 1/4 sec.) very interesting! http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m9-forum/292830-m-typ-240-startup-time.html#post2458011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 22, 2013 Share #5 Posted July 22, 2013 I need to measure... I am beginning to think that in my case the bottleneck was the integrety check the Panasonic card is supposed to make. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 22, 2013 Share #6 Posted July 22, 2013 Stopwatch next to camera. Ten measurements with Lexar: Never 1.5 never 2.0; say 1.75 average. On the Panasonic it ran well over 2.0 each time. something like 1.7 is acceptable, 2.5 is too much. Imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted July 22, 2013 Share #7 Posted July 22, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I think you just have to accept the M is not a fast turnaround camera like an Olympus OMD or a Canon 5D MkIII, which you knew before you bought it. Nobody has ever expected and predicted Leica would make a leading technologically competent camera, so why expect it now? It is slow, it doesn' have AF, it doesn't have IS, it doesn't do many things. Be thankful for what it does do, very well. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 22, 2013 Share #8 Posted July 22, 2013 People forget this is a rangefinder camera with auxiliary Live View and EVF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viramati Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted July 22, 2013 Yes it would be interesting if it could be improved but was really wanting to why it behaves like this. When I had the ricoh GXR with the M module it was the same so I presume it is a processing issue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindolfi Posted July 23, 2013 Share #10 Posted July 23, 2013 A comparison between the Lexar 64 Gb 600x SD card and the Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 Gb SD card shows no difference in startup time (1.5 sec) or blackout time (2.1 sec) but the Lexar is a lot slower than the Sandisk in writing (18.6 sec writing 20 images by the Leica M and 11.5 sec for the Sandisk), which is confirmed by write speeds measured with the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. Note that the speeds of the cards are rated as 90 MB/sec and 95 MB/sec respectively by the manufacturers while they are measured as 33 MB/sec and 66 MB/sec. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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