I have the nikon d600. I take a lot of pictures of kids and therefore need to take multiple picture sequences. Usually after 4/5 quick pictures, I hit the button to take and it pushes all the way down but won't take a picture for 10-15 seconds. I use to have the nikon d90 and never had this problem. I don't know if my cards are too slow or if it can't keep up with the sequences, but it is so frustrating. I don't know what to have looked at? At first I thought it couldn't find a focus but this occurs even when i don't change position after multiple photos and I miss a lot of moments. What would cause it to free up or not take a photo?
Nikon d600 freezes up when trying to take sequences
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Sorry, not sure my reply went through. I use san disk ultra cards, up to 30 mb/s. I shoot in raw. And my shutter speeds vary but are usually around 1/200 or a little more, but this stalling occurs even in automatic mode. I try to keep the camera in CL mode, but this also happens in S mode. No idea how to troubleshoot this one. A camera of this level should not have this issue. I didn't have it with my d90. Wonder if any of my settings are wrong?
You may need a faster card.
Another problem reported for D800 but may hold for D600 is that the camera writes at the slowest card rate, so if you have a 30MB/s and a 20MB/s card in two slots then it would write at 20MB/s.
By the way the RAW file is about 30MB so the card has to be much faster than 30MB/s. A 30MB/s card will write only one RAW file per second.:fatigue: Try a faster card say 90MB/s.
Another problem reported for D800 but may hold for D600 is that the camera writes at the slowest card rate, so if you have a 30MB/s and a 20MB/s card in two slots then it would write at 20MB/s.
By the way the RAW file is about 30MB so the card has to be much faster than 30MB/s. A 30MB/s card will write only one RAW file per second.:fatigue: Try a faster card say 90MB/s.
singlerosa_RIP
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I'm using 45mbs cards in my D600 and fill the buffer after less than 10 RAW shots. I should switch to jpeg when I want more continuous shooting capabilities, but I hate to give up the RAW edititing capabilities.
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The culprit leads to the write speed of your SD card. Try using a faster SD card to help clear the bottle neck.
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BackdoorArts
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I'm with those who say the card is your likely culprit, but 10-15 seconds is a lot longer than it should take to flush the buffer. Are you shooting RAW+JPEG or just RAW? Things like Active D-Lighting and other post-shot adjustments can slow you down a little as well, though not 10 seconds after 4-5 shots. If you're shooting RAW+JPEG send them to separate cards to reduce the amount of data going to a single card. I get at least 10-14 shots on my D600 before it gags, and that's with a 45 MB/s card, so there's something odd afoot.
I have taken a lot of fast moving animals/birds and I use a 32Meg card in conjunction with a eye-fi card that sends the photos to my nearby Mac Air. so far it has presented no problems, it may not be your card that is the problem what is your ISO and lens, as both have critical input to the writing process also if you are asking the camera to clean a noisy picture this also can be additive. I can normally shoot at 5-6 frames a second without delays or hesitation. The longest burst I have taken was 24 shots.