Raw its like 1/sec basically. Close enough. If you want to do 1s interval time-lapses that is the only way to go. It might be a little faster for jpeg but i wouldn't hope for much.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The answer to Larry's question depends on several things besides the > model of the camera. > 1) Are you shooting RAW, JPEG, or BOTH? > 2) What is the write speed of the SD card? > The purpose of the buffer is to save an overflow of information that > needs to get written on the card. So the amount of info being written > (#1) and how fast that gets accomplished (possibly bottlenecked by #2) > are going to be a factor. > > I recommend that the only way to test this is to put your camera on > Manual and set the internal intervalometer for the maximum number of > files you can get on your size SD card and try your minimum (like 3 > seconds, which would give you 20 frames per minute). Let it go while > it is sitting on your desk and see if it stops at some point, or is > able to shoot the whole 500 or 900 frames without pausing or stopping. > Unlike continuous frame shooting, where you fill up the buffer fast > (after X exposures at Y frames per second), If you total write time is > 3.1 seconds and you are taking an exposure every 3 seconds then .1 > second per frame is being buffered. Eventually that will add up to to > a full buffer, but it may take a LOT of frames to get there. Still you > want ZERO frames to get there. > > Google Time-Lapse calculators for some useful ways to manipulate your > values to make sure that you can also save the entire duration of > exposures on your size of SD card. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, NE > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: >> For the K-3 II, it's close to 1/second, but might fall a little short >> of that. I did a timelapse with 3-shot bracketing at an interval of 3 >> seconds, using an external intervalometer, and it mostly kept up but >> there were occasional dropped shots. I was using a recent Sandisk >> Extreme card and shooting raw. I'm going to use a 4-second interval >> (per 3 shots) during the eclipse. >> >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:01 PM, <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> What is the fastest rate that a k3 can continuously take photos without >>> overflowing the buffer? Once a second? >>> -- >>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” > ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
