There were complaints that the R5 was slow to wake up from sleep but I had no problems as I would half press the shutter button or press a back button focus as I raised the camera to my eye and it was awake by the time it reached there. However, I am finding that after the R5ii has been in sleep mode for a while it can be irritatingly slow for the exposure details in the viewfinder to activate. Is this unusual?
How fast does your R5ii wake from sleep?
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Not from a deep sleep or a 'long' power off. I have attributed that to the Prograde Gold card, but I have to admit I hadn't actually tested that properly.
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You have nailed it. I took out the CF card and went out with just the SD card in slot 2. Instant wake up after a long sleep. Do you have recommendations for a CF card?
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FWIW (not much!) I have a pair of Prograde Gold CFe cards in my R1 and it wakes up instantly from a long sleep. I wonder if capacity matters? I’m using 256 GB cards (the smallest 4.0 card available).
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Well, don’t get a Prograde Gold 1TB, that’s the one I have. It works great, but it does make the R5II take longer to boot.
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Adding a few data points to this potential trend. On my R1 with 512 GB Prograde Gold 4.0 CFe cards, it usually wakes up in less than 1 sec, but there are times (~30%) when I can see the scene through the viewfinder but the rest of the display (AF point, settings, etc) take an additional ~2 seconds.
This is why these threads are so interesting. I am hearing 256 GB all good....512 GB mostly good but occasionally slower wake up times, and 1 TB longer to boot, I just inserted and formatted my Sandisk Extreme Pro 2.0 128 GB card. The wake up is noticeably faster than my 512 GB cards. And I have yet to see a lag between the screen popping up and the rest of the display.
This is why these threads are so interesting. I am hearing 256 GB all good....512 GB mostly good but occasionally slower wake up times, and 1 TB longer to boot, I just inserted and formatted my Sandisk Extreme Pro 2.0 128 GB card. The wake up is noticeably faster than my 512 GB cards. And I have yet to see a lag between the screen popping up and the rest of the display.
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My old Manfrotto 128 GB behaves similarly to your 512 GB but the wait to see the settings can take more than 5 seconds. I'll test the 256 GB Prograde Gold when it arrives at the weekend. I am surprised how fast it boots from a cheap Lexar 128 GB V60 II card. The delay with the CFexpress was really annoying and I was surprised that I hadn't seen anybody report on it here.
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Let us know what you find out with the 256 GB Prograde Gold cards. I am debating if sometimes having ~2-3 second lag is worth investing in a pair of 128 or 256 GB cards. If a good sale comes along, I might and then move the 512 GB cards to back-up.
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Since one of the items shown as a settings display is the number of shots available, I suspect the bigger the card, the longer the camera takes to determine the available space.
I've always gone with smaller cards. Writing to multiple (RAWs to both cards) on my R1 shows >6000 shots available with empty 256 GB cards. Even with pre-capture and 40 fps, I'm not worried about hitting that limit. I use 64 GB cards in my R3 with no capacity problems.
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I use Sony Tough 128GB cards in my R3 and startup is virtually instantaneous. The last camera I had (well, still have in the basement) that had a noticeable delay in startup was the 10D.
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I had the opposite experience, it was the SD card that was slowing startup of the (original) R5. Reformatting the SD card in my PC and then in the camera fixed that issues. Funnily enough I never used the SD card, it is only in the second slot, in case the CFE card is full.
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I have not consciously experienced slow startup times. I will check if my R5 Mk II has the same issues as you experience.
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The Prograde 256 Gb Gold arrived this afternoon. So far, just doing tests at home, it seems to boot very quickly most of the time. Tomorrow is dreadful weather so will do some real testing over the weekend with the R5ii.
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I have done some testing with the R5 Mk II. The time needed to show exposure information in the viewfinder is dependent on the time the camera has been inactive after it 'has gone to sleep':
- A short period of inactivity results in a short (+/-1 sec) time so show exposure information, regardless of the memory cards in the camera (SD + CFE, SD Only, CFE only).
- With a longer period of inactivity (i.e. minutes) the results appear to be dependent on the memory cards in the camera:
- CFE card only: results in a short (+/- 1 sec) time so show exposure information.
- SD Card only: results in a longer (+/- 5-6 sec) time to show exposure information.
- CFE + SD Card: mixed results, sometimes the camera shows the exposure information within a second, sometimes it takes 5-6 seconds.
- I have repeated these test with different card configurations 3- 5 times
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