Changing to 6 FPS

D7100-79

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While I'm shooting in CH for action, for some reason my camera only captures 2 fps. How do I increase to maximum possible 6 FPS available in this camera. I'm new to D7100 and might have tweaked a setting when I got it new and don't remember it now.

Thank you
 

nickt

Senior Member
There is a setting for CL frames per second, but not for CH. Are you shooting raw or jpg? If raw, you might need a faster card. If jpg, you still might need a faster card, but its usually not a problem.
If you are shooting raw, try jpg only. If you already were shooting jpg only, try lowering the jpg quality, just for a test. Even with a fast card, you might only get 5 frames in at the full frame rate before the buffer chokes and slows you way down.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
While I'm shooting in CH for action, for some reason my camera only captures 2 fps. How do I increase to maximum possible 6 FPS available in this camera. I'm new to D7100 and might have tweaked a setting when I got it new and don't remember it now.

Thank you
See options d5 and d6 in the Custom Setting menu. Also make sure the dial below the mode dial is set to Continuous H, not Continuous L.
 
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What SD card are you using now?

Remember that the number you see on most cards is the Read speed and not the write speed which is how fast your card can write to the card. I ran into the same problem with my D750. Would only write a few frames of RAW before it slowed down to catch up. Going to the fastest card I could find I could go to 40 frames in RAW (If I remember correctly) switching to JPG only it goes full speed till it hits 100 frames before it slows down.
 

Marcel

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Also don't forget that if your shutter speed is slow, the camera can't take more picture per seconds than the shutter speed will allow. I hope you already had thought about that. :)
 

spb_stan

Senior Member
Are you using Release Priority or Focus Priority? If the latter, try switching to Release to see if the frame rate increases.

Is there a reason to be using such a large SD card? That is a lot of photos to risk. All cards fail eventually so if you are storing thousands of photos on that card, all will be lost. Using smaller cards and switching card periodically lowers the risk to a few hundred images at worst.
 

nikonpup

Senior Member
when you find and fix your problem if you want a faster fps go to image area and change from dx to 1.3x, you should get 8-9 fps with the reduced file size.
 
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