D610 slow writing to SD cards

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I don't know if it's a change of technique or something faulty in the camera but my D610 is taking quite a while to write to the cards.

I am often running out of buffer space and having to wait ages for it to finish writing the pictures. I never noticed this happening before.

I'm taking family portraits and doing it the same as I always have been (as far as I know). I'm taking the pictures in RAW and writing to both card slots at the same time.

Am I doing something different or is something not working properly? I recently bought some of the upgraded Sandisk ultra 80mb version's (rather than the 40) but it hasn't made much different.
 
Just at this link it looks like a move from 40mbs to 80mbs probably won't make much difference. Where did you get the cards from? Is the buffering happening with the 40mbs cards?

http://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/nikon-d600/fastest-sd-card-tests/

Have you changed the type of RAW file? ie are you now using 12 or 14 bit or lossless compressed etc.
 
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Try using the appropriate buttons, to do a full reset, then see if things improve. It will mean, that you'll have to set up your camera again to your liking, but may solve the issue.
 
I had a strange issue the other day. I have card 2 set as backup but this is what I believe I ended up with.

Say there were 200 pictures taken...

Card one had pictures 100-180
Card two had pictures 160- 200

No idea how this happened. The cards in the camera were identical and even if I had accidentally formatted card two it wouldn't explain why card one stopped.
 
Maybe you changed settings from recording on both cards to follow on card when one is full at some time or other, easily done. At 24MP transferring to two cards at the same time at up to 6fps I am not surprised you are hitting a buffer.


http://d610.org/nikon-d610-recommended-sd-cards/

Hope this link helps
 
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OK basically with regards to my last post it turns out I was using fall-over to card 2 rather than both. The reason was that I was using aperture priority mode for some indoor photos which I don't usually do. I do use AP but it's on a custom dial entry with some other settings including SD backup.

This does explain the issue partly but does not explain why card 2 started before card 1 had finished (with quite a big gap).
 
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