On 11 Sep 2004 at 8:19, DagT wrote: > The speed of the *istD is OK with me. > > The reaction time of a photographer who has some idea of how he wants > the picture is about 1/10 second and will beat even the 1DmkII if the > intention is to get one good picture. I gave up winders and motors > because I sometimes got the picture before and after, but not when > something happened. > > Of course this is different if you want a detailed series, but then you > are almost into video.
I rarely if ever have the camera on auto-fire, I have run out of buffer many a time in single shot mode, each time the shutter fired was my decision. Get to the end of the buffer and seven seconds is a mighty long time to wait between frames if a car is flipping in front of you or if a performer is right in front of you performing to the camera. At least with the LX I could pick up my other one (I had two motors) with film pre-loaded so I could get in as many as 72 shots in a sequence at over 5fps (if required). Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
