Newbie D300s user...frames per sec help!!!!

Just got a D300s after upgrading from the D3200 and boy are the two cameras very, very different. Anyhow, I shoot exclusively sports, mostly baseball. My problem is that in Ch mode the camera is shooting very slowly...nothing close to 7 fps, more like 1 per second.

I fear I have somehow set the camera to a setting that is not allowing it to shoot bursts of pictures. Can someone please help me?

I've already scoured youtube for video support, but to no avail. Thanks.

I posted a link to YouTube tutorial in the d300 forum a few weeks ago on iPhone at the moment but just look thru the list of threads. Super high recco, great stuff got me off and running for sure!

Here is the link to your D300 speed thread buddy!

hrstrat57 said:

I posted a link to YouTube tutorial in the d300 forum a few weeks ago on iPhone at the moment but just look thru the list of threads. Super high recco, great stuff got me off and running for sure!

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Thanks a lot to you both. Think I figured out the problem. Quick question...is it possible to increase the fps from 6 to 7 on the D300s without the MB-D10 battery grip, just as the youtube vids explain is possible for the D300?

Sorry I don't have a clue for a couple reasons. First I bought a battery grip right away. But mostly because I haven't needed a ton of speed so far. I've been mostly plan and shoot so far. Sorry.
But there are others in the D300 fan club group that may know a lot more of those types of things. You can see the link in my signature and we'd welcome you if you'd like to join.

But somebody will likely chime in on this here.

shoelessdun said:

Thanks a lot to you both. Think I figured out the problem. Quick question...is it possible to increase the fps from 6 to 7 on the D300s without the MB-D10 battery grip, just as the youtube vids explain is possible for the D300?

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I don't think that you would be able to achieve higher FPS without the battery grip. You do need to keep in mind that to achieve the higher speeds it will need to rely on the additional power source of the additional battery. You also need to understand that the jump in frame rate only goes up by a percentage. For the D300s it states that you can get 8 FPS with battery grip, from the 7 FPS without grip. However it only increases by .5 FPS which would round off to 8FPS.

In the tutorial bits Bill linked you to there is a bracketing trick you can use demonstrated. I recall or being pretty simple and straightforward - and produces 9 fps if I recall correctly... Still I'm iPhone tho u will have to hunt it down.

The link to my thread pops up at the bottom ha ha - what a cool forum this is!!!

I'm not sure how, because this is a first for me, but it opens on the place on the page I was looking at when I copied the URL! Lol Then I just pasted it in the post and added the bracket and such to clean it up a bit so it didn't show like this.lol I think I could figure it out. I may try just for the fun of it. Lol

http://nikonites.com/d300-d300s/239...alkthru-lesson-6-video-series.html#post337843

hrstrat57 said:

In the tutorial bits Bill linked you to there is a bracketing trick you can use demonstrated. I recall or being pretty simple and straightforward - and produces 9 fps if I recall correctly... Still I'm iPhone tho u will have to hunt it down.

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hr... bracketing is different from FPS. Bracketing is taking multiple shots of the same item at different exposures. Same as doing manual HDR photography and finalizing the image in PP.

Don't have time to look it up now unfortunately I am on the fly but in those tutorials is a trick to get near 9 FPS out of the D300...a feature I am not interested in btw, will be sat with 7 when my grip arrives.....

Suggest the OP review the tutorials the author dedicated a lot of time to demonstrating it as I recall, again no can do it tonight....I recall it being video 4? Was flash bracketing burst mode with flash down I believe....9 shot burst in just over a second without battery grip - my memory is not what it used to be sorry,

Can't hunt it down tonight and since the OP was asking I will leave it there

skene said:

hr... bracketing is different from FPS. Bracketing is taking multiple shots of the same item at different exposures. Same as doing manual HDR photography and finalizing the image in PP.

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I think you can bracket shoot, but if you don't set the incrementer to a valid number... it'll take the bracket shots with no increase/decrease in exposure...

Yes, you can bracket up to 3-9 shots at different EV.
But the OP is asking on FPS not bracketing.

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"The continuous shooting speed has been given a bit of a boost, with the camera now capable of shooting at 7fps using its own battery and 8fps with the MB-D10 battery grip. "

What memory card are you using?

I always shot RAW with my D300s and it still cranked out FPS. I had a grip...but still. If it feels that slow, make sure you're not using a POS memory card with poor read/write speed.

Wouldn't your FPS also depend on your shutter speed? I mean if you're shooting at a low enough shutter speed, you can only get so many frames per second. No?

OP
Just looked end of video 4 start of video 5....bracketing burst flash, same exposure 8 FPS w/o battery grip....

Watch the vids....I just demo'd and got the high burst....works 100%

Well BT if you want to get more technical into it... You need to set the shutter speed above 1/250s to achieve the 7FPS and IIRC this can be accomplished shooting jpg. Followed by the fastest CF/SD that you can get.

Check your RAW settings - you need to shoot in 12-bit RAW mode to get 7 FPS. If you're in 14-bit RAW mode, your FPS is much slower.