Need help with continuous shooting...

[DigiJay]

For the sake of curiousity.. try reducing your image size to and quality to as low as possible and try it out. It still sounds like it could be a memory card problem.

 

[GeorgiaOwl]

Well, that did it. Thanks dearleader! I turned the camera to P mode, and turned D lighting OFF, and it read 5 shots. I thought " great, at least that's one more..."
But when I held it down, there was a slight pause at 5, but it just kept on shooting....pow,pow,pow,pow...

horray!

Am I correct in assuming that a faster memory card would speed this "pause" between pics up a bit?

thanks again so much everyone. . . .

 

[Overread]

it will up to a limit - which is either the max speed of the card or the max save speed of the camera - afterwhich any faster cards won't increase the speed

 

[RandyB]

Well, that did it. Thanks dearleader! I turned the camera to P mode, and turned D lighting OFF, and it read 5 shots. I thought " great, at least that's one more..."
But when I held it down, there was a slight pause at 5, but it just kept on shooting....pow,pow,pow,pow...

horray!

Am I correct in assuming that a faster memory card would speed this "pause" between pics up a bit?

thanks again so much everyone. . . .

My D60 does the samething! It may be a memory speed problem or the D60 can't send them that fast. But anyway the the D60 says 3 fps per second. Haven't tried a bunch of pictures, not more than 10. But I do get a pause sometimes, then it continues shooting.

 

[JimmyO]

Cameras are rarely limited by their cards, especially cameras that are doing under 5fps. I can shoot 5fps for the whole 40 shot buffer on my D1H with my POS no name CF card i got off ebay. Your problem is in the settings. Make sure noise reduction is also off.

 

[Phazan]

I'm not a Nikon guy, but is there any noise reduction that's turned on?? I had that problem with my 40d when I first got it, then noticed I forgot to turn off a bunch of enhancing/noise reduction features.

EDIT:Oops, JimmyO beat me haha

 

[seancoia]

i have a d80, and when i shoot continuous on large format it only shoots 10 shots before it slows its speed, when i shoot on small format it goes continuously for whatever you need.

 

[STICKMAN]

I have 2 4g sd ultra II HSHC(highspeed,high capacity) and 1 2g sd ultra III HS and have no problems what so ever with buffer. I have a d-40 i shoot people skydiving with no delay or issues that thing will go untill i let up!!!!!! now i dont over do it but i knock out 20-30+ shoots sometimes.


as for (Panasonic Pro High Speed memory card) as stated earlier, brand is useless so long as it works with the camera and is high speed your fine....

I would call nikon and get a solid answer before u find out something is wrong and more damage is being done by trying........

 

[TamiyaGuy]

Yep, active D-lighting is a HUGE hog. The first time I used my D40 in continuous mode, I had the noise reduction turned on, and I was getting about 1.5FPS. Wow, I thought, that's way faster than my compact. Then I turned noise reduction off. Holy sweet mother, it's out of control!!!