Slow buffer on d5500

Sammarkjones

New member
Hi everyone,

I've had my d5500 for about 6 months now, and I'm sure that the buffer has slowed down. If I have it on burst mode, the buffer fills after 5 or 6 shots. Then, if I continue to try to shoot pictures, the FPS drops to about 1 picture every 5 seconds, and if I stop taking pictures it takes about 30s for the green light to clear. I'm using a class 10 SD card (and have the same problem with all SD cards).

I'm sure this is slower than it used to be. Anyone had this before, or any ideas to solve it? Am I being stupid? Is there an obvious seeing I'm missing?

Thanks for your help everyone.

Sam
 

Moab Man

Senior Member
Class 10 doesn't mean anything as there are a broad range of speeds in that category. You need cards that are processing at 95 meg a second and higher.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Class 10 doesn't mean anything as there are a broad range of speeds in that category. You need cards that are processing at 95 meg a second and higher.
And the "95MB/s" is the cards READ speed, as opposed to the WRITE speed, which it typical when it comes to looking at SD memory... Manufacturers like to quote the read-speed because it's the significantly higher of the two numbers of course and people like big numbers. That being said, the SanDisk Extreme Pro's, rated at 95MB/s are, I believe, still King of Hill when it comes to overall speed, though that may have changed.
 

nickt

Senior Member
You mention things have gotten more slow. Did you add RAW to the mix? Maybe you were shooting jpg at the start and switched to raw or raw + jpg and are now noticing the slowdown from the much larger files.
 

RocketCowboy

Senior Member
First, howdy and welcome to Nikonites!!!

Second, i think @nickt is on the right troubleshooting path...have you recently changed setting on the camera that may be contributing to the slower performance? Shooting both raw and jpg is more obvious (because now the camera is writing two tiles instead of just one), but other changes could be things like Active D-lighting, in camera noise reduction, etc that can all appear to decrease buffer capacity due to additional processing going on in camera.


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dachshund

Senior Member
Activation/de-activation of “distortion control” in the setup menu has a significant affect on memory buffer capacity
 
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