Consecutive Shooting With *ist D

[Joseph Tainter]

I wanted to see what it could do. In Raw mode, the answer is 5 frames. 
Then it pauses for a long time before you can take another. I assumed 
that this was due to the size of the buffer, so I tried it in Tiff mode. 
Again, it shot 5 consecutive frames before it had to pause to catch its 
breath. This means that the buffer holds at least 85 mb. It also means 
that the buffer could have held 6 Raw photos (13 mb apiece) in 
consecutive mode. So the buffer size is not the limiting factor. I tried 
it again at highest jpeg. Again it took 5 shots before pausing, but 
recovered and took number 6 much quicker that in Raw or Tiff.

So does the processor's capability set the limitation on consecutive 
mode shooting?

Joe