spencer 0 #1 August 22, 2003 "continuous shooting 3 frames a second for up to 9 frames in each burst???." Could someone please put this into plain english. ??. Will a Canon 10D be good enough for shooting tandems , how many shots can you take in freefall? etc. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #2 August 22, 2003 SOUNDS like it means it takes 9 photos in rappid succession then stops. This is done at the speed of 3 photos every seccond. Therefore it takes 3 secconds to complete the action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noods 0 #3 August 22, 2003 Hi Spencer, the following is taken from a post previously submitted by Quade (the moderator of this forum) talking about the Canon D60. The process also applies to your 10D with 9 frames in buffer instead of 8. Hope this helps (and hope you don't mind me quoting you Paul)... "The typical flow for the image right now on a digital camera is imager>buffer>processing>storage. On some of the very early cameras, once the buffer had a shot in it, you had to wait until the buffer was entirely cleared before you could start taking photos again. On the more modern designs (Canon D60 for example, which holds 8 shots) you can start taking photos again as soon as there is enough room in the buffer to do so. If there is room for one shot, then you can take the one shot. The time it takes for the ENTIRE buffer of 8 shots to clear is something like 4 or 5 seconds. So, 8 frames at 3 fps, wait 5 seconds and you can shoot another 8 frames at 3 fps. OR, shoot your first 8 frames at 3 fps, wait a couple of seconds and shoot off another 3 or 4. OR just press and hold the trigger and it'll shoot off 8 frames at 3 fps and then continue to shoot off 1 frame every second or so. As you can see, this isn't really a very big limitation. Typically, I'm laying on the trigger for exit, waiting a couple of seconds for something else to happen and firing short bursts when I think things are getting interesting. Since my storage card will hold about 100 shots, I'm not too worried about running out. I'll typically shoot about 40 shots in a skydive and this still allows me to do back-to-back loads if required. As for exposures, ASA, ect. . . . pretty much everything you already know about photography still applies." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #4 August 22, 2003 The 10D is fine for all the "regular" types of skydiving. You can take about 60 shots a minute. Way more than the selectivity you have to practice with film in the camera. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
