Lag in Waking Up SLR from Sleep Mode

[DiWizard]

Hi,

First of all thanks a lot for this amazing firmware, you surely have unleashed the hidden dragon :-) ........
I have only one little problem. When my Canon 5D MKII turns off by itself after 2mins and then pressing the trigger to wake it up again its a while to do so and since I work in photo journalism it's very critical for me as it can mean loosing the moment. Are there any work arounds about it ?

[nanomad]

My 1100D does that too on canon's firmware. I suspect that after 2mins the camera goes to "full  shutdown" and has to do a cold start

[Malcolm Debono]

According to some older posts on Flickr, the camera's auto power-off is equivalent to turning off the camera using the physical switch. In fact, some just set the auto power-off feature and don't bother using the physical switch.

[g3gg0]

the conclusion:
you are using "unified" version which includes binaries for all compatible camera bodies.
when starting the camera, this binary is loaded (1.7MiB) and this takes little longer (0.5 - 1 sec maybe)

one solution would be: use a version special compiled for 5DII only.
then it will take less time to boot.
-> compile from source, or someone uploads the binary

[topbanana]

I too have this lag after installing 2.3... Didn't have it on the previous release.
And have missed quite a few shots since installing, so i hope there is a workaround/fix.

[nanomad]

Have you ever tried an older release of ML?

Btw, this happens with a custom autexec.bin too since canon firmware has to be initialized fully before ML can take control and re-start

[a1ex]

If your card is fragmented, it might load a bit slower, so format it.

[Francis]

Even with a binary specially compiled for the 5d2, it boots much slower than than the 550d with a non-specific binary. It is just a slow booter it seems.