X100 slow with bigger cards?

[Rogier]

Update:
Today I have been taking the camera on a short road trip and taken a lot of images using a Sandisk Extreme 16Gb Class 10 (45MB/s) and had no trouble at all. This was one of the same cards I used 2 years ago in Myanmar where I experienced the trouble.

After I returned home I upgraded the firmware from 2.01 to 2.1 and it appears to me that the focusing and shutter lag have become much shorter. The camera feels snappy.

Next step is testing with my other cards and batteries.

 

[Pherdinand]

Well you're lucky or maybe less sensitive to slow cameras.
It's a known and acknowledged issue for fuji cameras.
Artifacts left on cards from Mac OS do slow operation.
I've experienced it with 4 different fuji models.
It's easily overcome with a quick card format in the camera.
Maybe try yourself Pherdinand... Maybe you will see a performance increase you did no know you were missing 😉

thanks - i did not mean to come over as arrogant, ignorant and unsensitive with my comment😀 i just think sometimes we worry about "well known issues" and miss a point, like stg wrong with that specific camera. Been there, done that🙂

No, my x100 does not have the slow-with-large-card or slow-with-MacOSX-leftovers issue. And yes i did do in-camera card format once or twice, when it was the easiest coz all was backed up, and there's no difference noticed.
If there's a 130 milliseconds improvements - yes maybe there is, and i missed it.
But no, there's no such problem as the camera "becoming useless" because it gets slow.

I do have the latest FW and it did improve from the "previous" FW i had - but the "previous" FW was several generations older, that came with the camera (1.-something), and mainly AF speed improved, which is a different issue.

 

[Rogier]

I processed the images I took yesterday. The X100 is capable of taking amazing shots.

DSCF1087 by Rogier Willems, on Flickr

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