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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 144779" data-attributes="member: 13090">I guess I can kind of see both sides of this coin: on a practical level, the buffer issue does not concern me. The camera is spec'ed to hit 6 FPS, and it does just... Not for very long (due to the buffer size) when shooting RAW. So you've got Nikon saying,effectively, there is no problem; we said you can have 6 FPS and you can. Then too I understand that by saying the camera will shoot at 6 FPS, without any sort of modifier or caveat attached to that statement, it's fair to assume the spec' means the camera will not only be capable of 6 FPS but will also functionally maintain that rate of shooting. And it certainly appears it will not. At least not when shooting RAW. So yeah, Nikon never promised &quot;Continuous 6 FPS in RAW&quot; but neither was there an asterisk, footnote or fine print indicating what they meant by 6 FPS, exactly. It's a toughie... And yes, I think the blame falls on Nikon for not being a little more forthcoming about the details of the shooting rate. They've been doing this for a while now so I don't believe no one at Nikon considered the fact that a camera body that breaks well into the fourth digit, price-wise, is going to be asked to shoot RAW at full speed for longer than one or two seconds. I smell a bean counter at work... Somewhere between design and final release specifications</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 144779, member: 13090"] I guess I can kind of see both sides of this coin: on a practical level, the buffer issue does not concern me. The camera is spec'ed to hit 6 FPS, and it does just... Not for very long (due to the buffer size) when shooting RAW. So you've got Nikon saying,effectively, there is no problem; we said you can have 6 FPS and you can. Then too I understand that by saying the camera will shoot at 6 FPS, without any sort of modifier or caveat attached to that statement, it's fair to assume the spec' means the camera will not only be capable of 6 FPS but will also functionally [I]maintain[/I] that rate of shooting. And it certainly appears it will not. At least not when shooting RAW. So yeah, Nikon never promised "Continuous 6 FPS in RAW" but neither was there an asterisk, footnote or fine print indicating what they meant by 6 FPS, exactly. It's a toughie... And yes, I think the blame falls on Nikon for not being a little more forthcoming about the details of the shooting rate. They've been doing this for a while now so I don't believe no one at Nikon considered the fact that a camera body that breaks well into the fourth digit, price-wise, is going to be asked to shoot RAW at full speed for longer than one or two seconds. I smell a bean counter at work... Somewhere between design and final release specifications [/QUOTE]

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