Video on the M 240 shuts down after 10 minutes or less?

[Paulus]

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After 3 years I tried to make a video longer than 10 minutes. I had to record a student for a 50 minutes lesson and thought the M  240 would be a great option.

 

I turned on the camera to " on " . Tipped the " on " film-button and the camera began to record. I let the camera hang on a fixed position in the assumption it would stay on recording, but it didn't.

 

After 50 minutes I saw, that the camera only recorded 6 minutes. The second time I let the camera alone for 50 minutes, it only recorded 6 minutes.

 

I tried it two times  more, One time with the automatic shutdown on " of " but that did not seem to make a difference.

 

Tried some times more , but I really don't know what I'm doing wrong.

 

I used two 32 gb cards sandisk Extreme pro 95Mb/s and two full batteries. 200 asa automatic shutterspeed,  2,8 Elmarit-M 24mm lens. The battaries were still 88 % and the use of the SD was about 6 Gb. 

 

Please could you tell me what went wrong?

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I haven't the foggiest notion.

 

If I had that problem, I would

• look at the recorded videos, particularly at the last minute that has been recorded, to see whether there was anything noteworthy going on.
• start a new recording under the same technical circumstances and watch the screen of the camera for any indication of a problem.
• check the rated speed of the card; the camera might overrun the card.
• re-format the card before use with the SDFormatter (not with a formatting function of the camera or the PC).

[STB]

You're running into file size limits. There's a fair bit of discussion about it in the following thread from post #791: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/215101-what-do-you-want-in-the-next-digital-m/?p=2763029

 

Leica says that the M 240 is limited to the earliest of 4GB or 29 minutes.

 

For heat reasons alone, it is unrealistic to expect the camera to run for 50 minutes.

[Paulus]

 

I haven't the foggiest notion.

 

If I had that problem, I would

• look at the recorded videos, particularly at the last minute that has been recorded, to see whether there was anything noteworthy going on.
• start a new recording under the same technical circumstances and watch the screen of the camera for any indication of a problem.
• check the rated speed of the card; the camera might overrun the card.
• re-format the card before use with the SDFormatter (not with a formatting function of the camera or the PC).

 

Last recordings I made today an hour ago in an empty room. The last minute before shutting down, the camera was standing still in an empty room.

 

The rate of the card 95Mb/s

 

Formatted the card just now.

[fotomas]

Is the card ExFat formatted?