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<blockquote data-quote="Fork" data-source="post: 79552" data-attributes="member: 10937"><p>Unfortunately it's not the card that controls the writing speed. The speed of a memory card only governs how fast it can transfer images from the card to a computer. The software in your camera is unaffected. </p><p></p><p>The "buffer" I'm talking about is kind of like the camera's RAM, it gets full if it has too many shots to process (like a PC trying to run too many programs at once) and it freezes the camera until all the photos in the buffer have been processed. </p><p></p><p>To demonstrate, set your camera to burst mode (or continuous shooting mode) and hold the shutter button down. See how many shots it takes before it starts to struggle to keep the speed up. Eventually it will stop and you won't be able to do anything until it has processed all those images. That's because the camera's RAM can only do so much at one time and the shots waiting to be processed get backed up.</p><p></p><p>The best way to speed up the buffer is to lower the quality setting in-camera. If you can bare to set it to the next quality level down from whatever you're using, I think you'll find you'll get a few more shots out of it before it grinds to a halt. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p><em>As a side note: </em> If you look into your viewfinder, down in the bottom right hand corner you will see a little box with the letter 'R' and a number a bit like this [R07]. That indicates how many shots the buffer can contain before it has to stop. </p><p></p><p>Do the holding shutter button down experiment again whilst looking through the viewfinder and watch that number. You'll see it go down the longer you hold the shutter. Eventually it will get to zero and the camera will stop shooting. You will then get a blank screen and the green 'saving' light on the back next to the screen will stay on until all shots have been processed. Once all those shots have been processed it will reset to its original number and you can hold the shutter down again.</p><p></p><p>Basically, because a 20 second shot takes so long to process, the camera hasn't finished processing by the time the next shot is being taken so it's processing and shooting at the same time - it will eventually get to the point where there are too many photos for it to process so it has no more RAM to use for the next shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fork, post: 79552, member: 10937"] Unfortunately it's not the card that controls the writing speed. The speed of a memory card only governs how fast it can transfer images from the card to a computer. The software in your camera is unaffected. The "buffer" I'm talking about is kind of like the camera's RAM, it gets full if it has too many shots to process (like a PC trying to run too many programs at once) and it freezes the camera until all the photos in the buffer have been processed. To demonstrate, set your camera to burst mode (or continuous shooting mode) and hold the shutter button down. See how many shots it takes before it starts to struggle to keep the speed up. Eventually it will stop and you won't be able to do anything until it has processed all those images. That's because the camera's RAM can only do so much at one time and the shots waiting to be processed get backed up. The best way to speed up the buffer is to lower the quality setting in-camera. If you can bare to set it to the next quality level down from whatever you're using, I think you'll find you'll get a few more shots out of it before it grinds to a halt. :) [I]As a side note: [/I] If you look into your viewfinder, down in the bottom right hand corner you will see a little box with the letter 'R' and a number a bit like this [R07]. That indicates how many shots the buffer can contain before it has to stop. Do the holding shutter button down experiment again whilst looking through the viewfinder and watch that number. You'll see it go down the longer you hold the shutter. Eventually it will get to zero and the camera will stop shooting. You will then get a blank screen and the green 'saving' light on the back next to the screen will stay on until all shots have been processed. Once all those shots have been processed it will reset to its original number and you can hold the shutter down again. Basically, because a 20 second shot takes so long to process, the camera hasn't finished processing by the time the next shot is being taken so it's processing and shooting at the same time - it will eventually get to the point where there are too many photos for it to process so it has no more RAM to use for the next shot. [/QUOTE]
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