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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raw its like 1/sec basically. Close enough. If you want to do 1s > interval time-lapses that is the only way to go. It might be a little > faster for jpeg but i wouldn't hope for much. > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The answer to Larry's question depends on several things besides the >> model of the camera. >> 1) Are you shooting RAW, JPEG, or BOTH? >> 2) What is the write speed of the SD card? >> The purpose of the buffer is to save an overflow of information that >> needs to get written on the card. So the amount of info being written >> (#1) and how fast that gets accomplished (possibly bottlenecked by #2) >> are going to be a factor. >> >> I recommend that the only way to test this is to put your camera on >> Manual and set the internal intervalometer for the maximum number of >> files you can get on your size SD card and try your minimum (like 3 >> seconds, which would give you 20 frames per minute). Let it go while >> it is sitting on your desk and see if it stops at some point, or is >> able to shoot the whole 500 or 900 frames without pausing or stopping. >> Unlike continuous frame shooting, where you fill up the buffer fast >> (after X exposures at Y frames per second), If you total write time is >> 3.1 seconds and you are taking an exposure every 3 seconds then .1 >> second per frame is being buffered. Eventually that will add up to to >> a full buffer, but it may take a LOT of frames to get there. Still you >> want ZERO frames to get there. >> >> Google Time-Lapse calculators for some useful ways to manipulate your >> values to make sure that you can also save the entire duration of >> exposures on your size of SD card. >> >> Darren Addy >> Kearney, NE >> >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> For the K-3 II, it's close to 1/second, but might fall a little short >>> of that. I did a timelapse with 3-shot bracketing at an interval of 3 >>> seconds, using an external intervalometer, and it mostly kept up but >>> there were occasional dropped shots. I was using a recent Sandisk >>> Extreme card and shooting raw. I'm going to use a 4-second interval >>> (per 3 shots) during the eclipse. >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:01 PM, <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>>> What is the fastest rate that a k3 can continuously take photos without >>>> overflowing the buffer? Once a second? >>>> -- >>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” >> ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
