amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Personally I turn off the automatic image playback feature on all my Canon cameras. It saves a LOT of battery power. I can always call up the last image taken by pressing the replay button. I also program my "set" button to serve the same purpose whenever the camera is in the "image taking" mode. That way I can use either thumb to recall the last image taken (although whether or not this helps really depends upon where the camera's image replay button is located).

I don't know whether or not the 5DIV does it, but with some cameras I found the automatic playback to be distracting when I was keeping my eye to the viewfinder (some cameras have a proximity sensor and turn auto teplay off when it senses your eye is at the viewfinder). The LCD screen lighting up right below my eye was irritating. But even when not at my eye I felt the auto playback was distracting and encouraged "chimping". I missed more than a few shots doing that!

So my auto playback is set to "none".

What you changed is how long duration the last image taken will be displayed. Changing that setting has no effect on how quickly it's displayed. There is no adjustment possible for that.

If you mean that the replay delay occurs after taking a short burst of images, it's probably because the camera needs a few seconds to record the images that have piled up in the buffer onto the memory card. Until that's done, the last image taken isn't ready to be played back to you. There are a couple factors that can effect this: the speed of the memory cards you're using and the number and size of files you're taking. Check the camera manual or search online for what speed memory card the 5DIV can use and get one at least that fast. For most popular camera models, there are usually folks who have tested them with various memory and posted the info somewhere online. Google "best memory card Canon 5D IV".

You probably can get even faster cards, but beyond the camera's maximum record speed, faster memory cards won't make saving the images any speedier.

If you have a fast card in one slot and a slow card in the other, the camera will write to both cards at the speed of the slower one.

If you record small JPEGs, those make for the most compact file sizes and the buffer will clear faster. However, you also compromise quite a bit on image quality, as well as how much post-processing the files will tolerate.

Large/fine JPEGs are faster, but are also being processed "in camera". Saving just RAW files will probably take similar time even though the files are much larger because the images aren't being processed in camera.

RAW + JPEG is the most data being pushed through the buffer and recorded onto the cads, so is the most likely to bog down files saving.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

With Canon a Low Level Format is required if your card is showing signs of slower then usual write speeds. Page 74 of the digital user's manual. To select Low Level Format just check the box on the format page of your camera's menu. If your card has seen a lot of usage it could definitely be writing slower then it should.

Edit: This only applies to SD cards, not the CF card.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Larry, please don't confuse us with good information, grin.
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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Yeah, I forgot about the card(s), I use SanDisk Extreme Pro cards and after I import the images into LR I format the cards every time.

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Although like others suggest having to do with processing, it also has to do with the much larger file size being written to the memory card. This is where faster cards help your camera transfer the data faster. If I understand it correctly, the review is a read of the card, and until the data is there, it can't review it. I also had a 7DMkII and the smaller file sizes made for an easy transfer and it didn't seem to matter what card I was using.

Try a different memory card, also check whether or not you're sending the raw image to one card and the jpeg to another card in the other slot (a favorite backup technique of many).