Buffer capacity anomoly

My camera is set to 12 bit RAW which, according to the manual, should give me a buffer capacity of 5 or 6. My viewfinder display shows "r 03" indicating I believe a capacity of 3. Can someone explain to me why this should be, what are the causes and how can I increase the buffer capacity?

Some camera settings can really dig into the buffer. Active D-Lighting and Lens Distortion Correction will really slow the camera down.

For which camera is this?

D7100

480sparky said:

Some camera settings can really dig into the buffer. Active D-Lighting and Lens Distortion Correction will really slow the camera down.

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Both are turned off with no affect.

I don't get it either. My D7000 has a buffer of R=11 shooting 14-bit RAW. I'll check into my manual a bit and see if I can find something.

My SD card is the Sandisk Extreme 60 MB/s 32 GB. Class 10. I couldn't get the Pro that I wanted at the time I bought the camera. Would that make a difference?

No, I use Sandisk Ultra Plus. 48 and 40 MB/s 32 GB
The memory bus on my D7000 is only like 40ish MB/s anyway. Anything higher would be useless for me.

The only thing I can think of to try is to reset the camera to factory settings. I "thought" the D7100 had a larger buffer than me. I know your files are larger than mine. 24mp vs my 16mp.
Any chance you are shooting RAW + JPEG?

I was shooting BIF with a friend yesterday who has a D7000. I noticed that my camera stopped while his continued to fire shots. Very frustrating.

Dxer said:

The only thing I can think of to try is to reset the camera to factory settings. I "thought" the D7100 had a larger buffer than me. I know your files are larger than mine. 24mp vs my 16mp.
Any chance you are shooting RAW + JPEG?

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No, shooting straight RAW. My handbook says that for RAW, lossless compressed, 12 bit the buffer should have a capacity of 7. RAW compressed 12 bit is 9??????

How about your setting for Max Continuous Release? I have mine set at 100

Yup, set to 100 also.

I just turned off Long Exposure NR and the buffer went ALL the way up to 4!

I have the extreme pro 95mb/s and get a reading of r07 12 bit raw,just put a card in that ime not sure of its rating but it will not be brilliant although most likley a class 10(for what ever thats worth) its a Nikon branded i got with my D5100 and still get r07,this is on a D7100.

Auto Distortion Control off?

Just a thought and i dont see it would make any difference but i have my camera set on continues low.

Well all that "R" number tells you is how many photos can be stored into the buffer depending how the camera is currently configured.
With that said, I would assume that it should be reading higher than 4 unless something just isn't set right in the menus.

Auto Distortion Control is now OFF and we have lift off to r6, let's keep going guys maybe we can make double figures? LOL

Mike I'm on low continuous also.

Auto ISO off?