On 3/9/2010 2:01 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
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?
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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.
It seems to happen when the camera is in bracket mode and I hold the
shutter down.
It happened again tonight. Presssing the shutter three times doesn't
seem to do that.
Is there some obscure menu option for the number of shots that it'll
shoot in a burst?
Not that I know of. The only options you have there are high and low,
which on the K-x I think are 4.5 and 2. The K20D has a setting for "one
push" auto bracketing. Maybe there's the same thing in the K-x but if
it were turned off you'd just have to press the shutter release for each
exposure in the bracket. The *ist-D and Ds both shoot auto bracketing
only while the shutter release is pressed. Let the release go and and
the sequence stops, then continues when you press the shutter again.
However your problem sounds different.
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