Why does my Nikon D5300 freeze when shooting photos or 60 fps video?
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My Nikon D5300 sometimes freezes while taking pictures or when recording 60 fps video. The screen stays stuck on the last image/frame, and even switching the camera off does not help. The only way to recover it is to remove the battery. What could cause this, and how can I fix it?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
11y ago
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Sounds like the SD card.
The camera will first put data into memory / a buffer, then from there, write to the card. If the camera is recording data at a rate that is faster than the card can write, then eventually the buffer will fill. At this point the camera becomes unresponsive. When you turn the camera off, it is still writing out the buffer to the SD card.
Even if your card reports 48 megabytes/second, pay careful attention to whether this is a guaranteed minimum speed. You will probably find it is a peak, or maximum speed, and maybe only for reading from the card, not writing to it. I wrote a summary article on my business website here, if interested.
You wrote that you never really fixed it, but that it hasn't happened lately and that you agreed it may have been a slow card. Did you try alternate cards?
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A likely cause is the SD card being too slow or unreliable for the amount of data the camera is trying to write, especially at 60 fps video. The camera first stores data in its internal buffer, then writes it to the card. If the card cannot sustain the required write speed, the buffer can fill up and the camera may appear to freeze or stay busy even after you switch it off.
What to try:
- Use a faster SD card with a strong sustained write speed, not just a high advertised maximum or read speed.
- Test with a different, known-good card.
- Format the card in the camera before important use.
- If the issue only happens with one card, that card is the most likely problem.
If the problem has stopped happening after changing cards or using a better one, that strongly supports the SD card as the cause.
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