Camera constantly says it is "Busy"

reynazackphotography

I have a Canon Digital Rebel xsi. When I am using the flash, the camera constantly says it is "busy," which makes me miss moments I want to capture on film. I am usually shooting in AV mode and only use the flash when I am shooting indoors. What can I do to help alleviate this?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks and happy new year to all!

ian408

Moving this over to cameras for a bit more exposure.

Cameron

reynazackphotography wrote:

I have a Canon Digital Rebel xsi. When I am using the flash, the camera constantly says it is "busy," which makes me miss moments I want to capture on film. I am usually shooting in AV mode and only use the flash when I am shooting indoors. What can I do to help alleviate this?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks and happy new year to all!

External flash? Does it prohibit you from taking any shots at all or simply show "busy" for a long time between shots?

ian408

Have you recently formatted your memory card? If not, try that. Perhaps it's busy because not enough space exists or there are problems with the card?

BradfordBenn

It also could be a problem with the speed of recharging the flash. How old is the battery? Perhaps it does not have the some capacity as previously. I also agree with Ian about the Flash card. I see a difference when I go to my "backup" (older/slower) cards which are slower read write speeds.

Photoskipper

slow memory card
The old cards with old file cause the delay. Try to delete and formate the card once a while to clean up the data.
I had experience delete the files on the card by Window explorer, it still locked up some memory space on the card and need to formate it in the camera.

Check the writing speed of the card.

change to Auto with smaller jpg file may help.

Charging the flash may be another reason. Battery grip may help.