It's easy to overlook write speed. I saw a prog a couple of weeks ago, where three non digital pros were given digitals to try. One was shooting interiors, in RAW. He had to keep apologising for the delays between shots, whilst it wrote to card. Read an article where a girl from SLR Mag accompanied a sports pro to a premier league game. They laughed when they saw her shooting RAW. The sports pros said it was too slow and for press purposes JPEG was plenty good enough. I was chuffed to find the pro success rate is very low, at something like one in eight, if memory serves.
Gerry Winskill bones wrote:
Looks like two separate issues are being discussed here. Shot count is standard with any camera but the buffer indication on the trigger seems to be a facility related to the D50 and D80. Buffer overflow is 100 on all the camera but this is specific to image quality. On the D80 all JPG formats can go up to 100 but it's the RAW settings that start dropping the count down. bones -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of franklyn fisher Sent: 14 July 2007 19:22 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: Another OT No Frank. It relates to the speed of writing to and the speed of clearing from the INTERNAL buffer to the memory card. Mike The 520 count goes down with each shot taken, this is the max number for the card and setting, obviously switching to a higher pixel count, the less the number of shots. Despite being a 6mp camera, I usually only print postcard size, and can print A3 without degradation. So a 10mp camera (with regard to the extra cost) would be wasted. Would loved to have got the D40X. But with only the one lens in the box, and £200.00 dearer, I opted for this one. (D40 with 18-55 and 55-200 lens) For continous shot mode, I can get up to 100, before buffer overflow, a bit OTT anyway, I would have to hold the button down for at least 30 seconds. Quicker to keep pushing. Response is a lot faster than my old 5mp Konica compact. Frank
