You may have misunderstood, I am not taking consecutive shots with a motor drive, these are single shots fairly close together - could even be done without a winder. But you are right in that the kid will grin when you are not ready. It is just that with the *istD and full buffer, you are not ready for a much longer time.
You are correct that it is not just a buffer problem. Write speed/compression and/or whatever else it takes is necessary also. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, June 2, 2005, 2:31:06 PM, you wrote: >> >>Here's another - taking candid portraits of a young kid who is >>moving around and you are catching some great facial >>expressions. Click, click, click as you go. Suddenly you he >>puts on the cutest grin and the BUFFER is FULL. >> LM> In my personal experience, even with 4.5fps PZ-1P the young kid will put on LM> the cutest grin precisely between the two frames :-) >>When shooting RAW on the *istD, the fastest cards take about >>7-9 seconds per shot to write out. Slower cards can take up >>to 15 seconds per shot. With a full buffer, that is quite a >>bit of time to elapse. LM> That's a long time, indeed. Something you do not think about with film LM> camera. But, if the figures for Nikon D70 are correct, it sounds to me that LM> larger buffer provides only a partial, temporary workaround. A redesign of LM> electronics to speed up the writing by almost an order of magnitude would be LM> more desirable solution. LM> Cheers, LM> Leon
