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Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
 
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John444 said:
I understand it needs to finish writing. S5 is nice because it has red lights to let you know that it's still writing. It doesn't take more than a split second or so for video. I don't think there's a huge buffer since it was 1080p footage on v30 cards. I'll try to run it harder and maybe try to replicate it in the coming days to see if that just wasn't just a one time thing.
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Another thing that I recommended after many discussion s on the S1H Pro group on Facebook, is using the SD-Card formatter from the SD-Card association. the issue is the internal formatter in the camera does a quick format, where this formatter does a deep format. This may help improve your issues you may have.

I ran into this when I had a Lexar 256...
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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It has happened to my S5 once, in 6 months. And I use it daily. I can live with that.
 
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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Not once so far.
 
I have never had my S1R freeze on me. However, my first copy was defective and had a sticky shutter but the replacement has been flawless.

P.S. I only take stills and occasionally slo-mo video.

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Never.

I got my S5 the day it was released, and use it regularly for both stills and recording long event videos. Mine has been 100% reliable.
 
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JDLaing50 said:
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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Not once so far.
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Same. S1 for 1.5y. Not once.
 
haven't noticed any lockup with either my S1 or S5.
 
S1R
 
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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It would be helpful on what you were doing when it froze. Was it stills or video.

I have the S1H and S1. My S1 has never froze. My S1H froze one time when hooked to a gimbal. I am sending it in to Panasonic, as I believe the USB Tether is defective.
 
Zero freezes here. I've only had my S1R for 6 months though.I don't expect it to start doing it though. If you are having issues, a bad memory card might be the issue.

My G9 froze once in a year and a half I believe.

The only camera I've had real issues with (or rather than did it once a month or so) was the Fuij X100s I had for a while.
 
LuxShots said:
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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It would be helpful on what you were doing when it froze. Was it stills or video.

I have the S1H and S1. My S1 has never froze. My S1H froze one time when hooked to a gimbal. I am sending it in to Panasonic, as I believe the USB Tether is defective.
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Video....vlogging. I stopped recording and the camera froze for a min so I just removed the battery.

I think it was the cards or the process of taking the cards out and putting in while the cam was still on. If that's it, maybe the s5 isn't hot-swappable. I just reformatted the cards and will see.
 
John444 said:
LuxShots said:
John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
Click to expand...
It would be helpful on what you were doing when it froze. Was it stills or video.

I have the S1H and S1. My S1 has never froze. My S1H froze one time when hooked to a gimbal. I am sending it in to Panasonic, as I believe the USB Tether is defective.
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Video....vlogging. I stopped recording and the camera froze for a min so I just removed the battery.

I think it was the cards or the process of taking the cards out and putting in while the cam was still on. If that's it, maybe the s5 isn't hot-swappable. I just reformatted the cards and will see.
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You need to ensure that the write was complete before removal of media obviously. The S5 and all Panasonic S series cameras have hot swappable media.
 
I understand it needs to finish writing. S5 is nice because it has red lights to let you know that it's still writing. It doesn't take more than a split second or so for video. I don't think there's a huge buffer since it was 1080p footage on v30 cards. I'll try to run it harder and maybe try to replicate it in the coming days to see if that just wasn't just a one time thing.
 
Very lucky to have taken my S1 and S1R through multiple deluges and had no freezes.

Not had any random freezing or stuttering at all, come to think of it.
 
John444 said:
I understand it needs to finish writing. S5 is nice because it has red lights to let you know that it's still writing. It doesn't take more than a split second or so for video. I don't think there's a huge buffer since it was 1080p footage on v30 cards. I'll try to run it harder and maybe try to replicate it in the coming days to see if that just wasn't just a one time thing.
Click to expand...
Another thing that I recommended after many discussion s on the S1H Pro group on Facebook, is using the SD-Card formatter from the SD-Card association. the issue is the internal formatter in the camera does a quick format, where this formatter does a deep format. This may help improve your issues you may have.

I ran into this when I had a Lexar 256 GB UHS-II v60 card, that would only record a few minutes of 400Mbps video before quitting stating the card wasn't fast enough. After formatting with the association's formatter, I could record to the card at 400Mbps until it was full!!
 
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John444 said:
Where you'd have to take the battery out to restart it?

What would you consider normal, acceptable or unacceptable?

I have an S5 and can compare it with the G9, and G85. The G9 almost never froze, g85 did on occasion. I think the S5 is freezing at least on the level of the g85, if not more. I only used it for a few hours indoors vlogging and it froze twice already which makes it feel like it's a GoPro. Maybe I can reformat or replace the SD cards but just want to get a feel for it too.
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Have had 2 S1 cameras for months, they haven't frozen on me yet. Had more issues with my Nikon Z6 when I had it.
 
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