Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:09:09 AM, you wrote: PJA> On 3/5/2010 1:35 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I was testing out the little stormtrooper this evening, and when I was >> bracketing shots, it was really weird, it would take two of the three, >> then stall. Later when I was testing it out at the dojo, it seemed >> that I could only take two shots. >> >> How big is the buffer on the Kx. Please tell me that the Pentax >> engineers were not so braindead that they put the same size buffer as >> the K100 in it, so that it'll only hold two shots with the bigger >> sensor, which means you can't even do a three shot bracketing with it. >> With memory less than half the price of what it was when the K100 came >> out, nobody could be so stupid as to design that fatal flaw into a >> camera. Could they? >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
PJA> The bottle neck could be the Bus or your memory card, if you have a PJA> faster card that might clear the buffer fast enough, so my answer is yes PJA> they could easily be that brain dead. And having used it pretty extensively, I can say that it is no worse than the K20D in practical use. I use a Transcend 16gb class 6 card most of the time. My guess is he had some unusual mode turned on that did extra processing or had a slow card or some such. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
