Leica M Typ 262 Startup Times Through The Viewfinder
Full review of the M262: http://www.jimarnold.org/blog/2015/12...
The Leica M Typ 262 is based on the Leica 240, which some users report is slow to start up. Many people have found formatting their SD cards with SD Card Formatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/form...) makes their M240's start faster.
When I first recorded that video I had read the posts on the 240 and slow start times. I assumed people were having a delay just seeing the frame lines appear.
After recording this video I ran more tests to determine startup to shoot time.
The fastest startup time I was able to achieve, from turning the camera on to being able to make an image, was 1.6 seconds with the Leica M262. That was with a Panasonic Gold 8GB card.
Time of other cards I tested:
16GB Sandisk Extreme Pro (95MB/s): 1.8 seconds
16GB Panasonic Gold: 1.9 seconds
16GB Samsung Pro (90/60MB/s white card): 1.75 seconds
In order to measure the time, as I turned on the camera while holding down the shutter button, I recorded this on video. Using Audacity I was able to “see” the sound of the “on” switch and ended with the sound of the shutter opening, allowing for a precise measurement.
Formatting the SD Card as exFat seems to be the key. I also tried SD Card Formatter alone and in conjunction with formatting in the camera. That didn’t seem to make any difference. Once I formatted the cards as exFat I recorded my fastest start-to-shoot times. The 16GB Panasonic’s start-to-shoot time when the card was formatted only in the camera at the card’s default MSDOS FAT format was 5.2 seconds. Formatting the card first in my computer as exFAT, then formatting the card in the camera reduced the startup time on this card to 1.9 seconds.