once you have captured a burst, the *istD takes a long time to write to the
card, especially in RAW mode. until it clears a frame's worth, you can't
take another picture. #2 here was taken in windy conditions with patchy sun
and mostly clouds. the sun lit up the entire field of blueberry bushes for
perhaps 2 or 3 seconds at a time. taking pictures each time the sun shone,
every 5-10 seconds or so, for about 2-3 seconds, and the *istD is unable to
keep up after the first 5. why take more than one or two? because i knew i
would have to look later at the blur pattern in the wind blown bushes to
decide which one was going to look best. i took about 20 shots to pick one.
the 20 are near identical but the one i picked had what i felt was the best
combination of sun light and wind blur. the D2X i used to shoot these
pictures cleared the buffer completely between shots.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: Skills - was Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side
Just a couple of questions/comments:
Large buffer/fast write times
How many shots can the istD handle in its buffer? The DS is supposed to
take five RAW images, but if I space my exposures by about a second or a
second and a half instead of machine gunning, I can capture eight frames,
and that's with a slow SD card. Perhaps with a faster card the buffer
might empty faster and even more frames can be captured.
