I think that the actual JPEG preview creation may not be the dominant time-waster, but flashing it up on the display causes the camera to become less responsive for a while. There's definitely a slowdown that goes away when you disable previews.
You're probably right about there always being a JPEG in there somewhere. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Speaking for myself, I find that disabling the LCD simply removes that >> distraction, and so encourages me to focus on the action (I'm somewhat >> ADD, so removing distractions helps me focus). It also speeds up >> shot-taking quite a bit as the camera doesn't have to waste time >> creating the preview JPEG. > > It might not have to waste time re-sizing it for display, but AFAIK > every image is going to get a preview JPEG embeddided in the file, > whether your chosen image format is JPEG, PEF or DNG. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
