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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 778053" data-attributes="member: 46690">I have to say, I was (am) a bit confused here. In your first post you stated &quot;...CL shoots 5 fps, the same as CH (altho a bit slower)&quot;. You reiterate that in the post quoted above. The statement seems contradictory to me. If CL shoots &quot;a bit slower&quot; than CH, then that is NOT the same as CH. And a difference of one to two frames per second is only a bit slower, and probably by the amount the spec sheet says it is.&nbsp;I may be off the mark, but I'd hazard a guess that the buffering rate of the D5500 in CH, set to High Quality RAW, drops the fps to the same rate as CL very quickly. But here's the catch: you are assuming it's the CL rate that is rising, not the CH rate that is falling. How are you determining whether you are shooting at 3fps or 5fps, for instance? If you have a way of accurately measuring minute amounts like that, I'd be curious to see if I am right.Here is an alternative you might try: switch to JPEG and see if there is a difference. Hold the shutter button down for an accurately timed 5 second burst in both CH and CL, then count how many frames each one shot. It has been my experience that buffering will not be an issue when shooting in JPEG in this model, unlike RAW, so you should get a better idea if your CH and CL have equal frame rates.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 778053, member: 46690"] I have to say, I was (am) a bit confused here. In your first post you stated "...[I]CL shoots 5 fps, the same as CH (altho a bit slower)[/I]". You reiterate that in the post quoted above. The statement seems contradictory to me. If CL shoots "a bit slower" than CH, then that is NOT the same as CH. And a difference of one to two frames per second [I]is [/I]only a bit slower, and probably by the amount the spec sheet says it is. I may be off the mark, but I'd hazard a guess that the buffering rate of the D5500 in CH, set to High Quality RAW, drops the fps to the same rate as CL very quickly. But here's the catch: you are assuming it's [I]the CL rate that is rising[/I], not the CH rate that is falling. How are you determining whether you are shooting at 3fps or 5fps, for instance? If you have a way of accurately measuring minute amounts like that, I'd be curious to see if I am right. Here is an alternative you might try: switch to JPEG and see if there is a difference. Hold the shutter button down for an accurately timed 5 second burst in both CH and CL, then count how many frames each one shot. It has been my experience that buffering will not be an issue when shooting in JPEG in this model, unlike RAW, so you should get a better idea if your CH and CL have equal frame rates. [/QUOTE]

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