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E-M1 Mark II Lockup (not UHS II)

Started Mar 20, 2017 | Discussions thread
drj3 Forum Pro • Posts: 12,633
Re: E-M1 Mark II Lockup (not UHS II)

TransientEye wrote:

Thanks for the replies. I have a pair of new 64GB UHS-I Sandisk cards arriving, along with a second battery. I am going to avoid UHS-II cards until they are better proven.

If it is the card, hopefully Olympus will address the lockup with a firmware update. The camera should never lock up indefinitely when notionally switched off - even if given a dodgy card. Even if the heat does not damage the camera, unexpectedly finding the battery flat as a result is a problem.

After switching to the Toshiba 260 MB/s card, I have taken well over 30,000 images and not had any further lockups.  I tried using my 95MB/s Sandisks in slot !, but they were too slow when shooting at 8+fps.  With the Toshiba, I can shoot at 8fps and not worry about the frame rate slowing down.

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