donny1963
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Ok, i have this Nikon D810, and saw on Ebay some one was selling a broken smashed Nikon D5, Which that camera has a unreal FPS shooting rate, of like 12 FPS at full Image Quality in continuous shooting rate.. And one of the things that is needed for something like that is a huge high speed memory buffer..
Now My nikon D810 can do continuous shooting at like 5 to 6 fps and will do this until it reaches around 30 to 35 frames then the memory buffer gets full and has to slow down until it catches up..
How ever the Nikon D5 can do 12 FPS up to 200 Frames before it will start to slow down, basically it really n ever slows down until maybe a couple minutes of continuous shooting..
But i thought to myself once i reach around 30 frames, it starts to bog down in fps to catch up..
So i done some research and found out that, the memory buffer in the D810 is the same chip size and configuration meaning the number of connectors soldered in to the board as the D5 the only Difference is that the memory size and speed of the D5 is way lager and faster..
So i purchased this broken Nikon D5 for $150.00 for parts and then got my soldering iron to work.
I used a soldering suction unit that pulls solder that is melted when you heat it up by the press of a button, so this made it easy for me to remove the ships out of the board..
Then i went to work on my D810 and removed the chips from that, and replaced them with the memory from the D5,, Now this was a long shot i was not sure if the camera would even turn on and work after this, but low and behold yeah the camera turned on and worked fine..
Not only that, when i put the camera in continuous shooting mode and full raw image quality
for some reason the frames FPS rate increased to like 7 or 8 FPS not sure why that was effected but i'll take that.. and not only that, i was never able to over fill the buffer to make it start to bog down to catch up, i tested this holding the shutter button for over 4 minutes and it never slowed down one bit..
Now this was a major breakthrough for me, i was very pleased of the results, now i'm sure Nikon never expected some one to do this, because if they knew people may do this they would probably change the type of memory chip each camera takes, making it impossible to do..
Now i did check to see if Nikon would sell the Memory buffer chips for replacement parts, and see what this would cost, thinking to myself i could make some quick $$$ offering to upgrade peoples D810's to have this upgrade, how ever, sadly Nikon will not Sell any circuit board parts unless your a authorized repair dealer oh well.
the only parts they would sell is external parts like grip replacements eye piece, battery doors stuff like that..
So i share this with you if your able to get your hands on a Broken Nikon D5 that some one will sell for parts cheep and you got a Nikon D810 , and your feel comfortable working on circuit boards and can use a soldering iron, then you could turn your Nikon D810 to a camera that will do continuous shooting mode at around 7 to 8 FPS at an unlimited amount of shots with out slowing down..
this is really cool knowing that i can hold down the shutter button and not have to worry about running out of buffer, this is especially great if you want to do some TIMELAPSE shots at 1 frame per second and not have the camera crap out before your timelapse shots are done..
for me this was annoying when i wanted to capture 1 fps for 5 to 10 or even 20 min for a timelapse sequence but after like few seconds the damm buffer was filled up and would ruin my timelapse..
i would have to do it in JPEG at a medium quality,, I now can do this in RAW and if there is any work i want to do in lightroom i get full post options editing raw..
So this upgrade is really awesome..
BTW, this process to do this is quite difficult, unless you have taken camera's apart before and think you can put it back together with out ruining it, because in order to take this camera apart and you have to be careful of disconnecting the ribbon cables on the boards..
you need some tools and it takes about 1 hour to dismantle and another hour to put back together, so your total time if you know what your doing is about 2 and a half hours of work all said and done..
Now My nikon D810 can do continuous shooting at like 5 to 6 fps and will do this until it reaches around 30 to 35 frames then the memory buffer gets full and has to slow down until it catches up..
How ever the Nikon D5 can do 12 FPS up to 200 Frames before it will start to slow down, basically it really n ever slows down until maybe a couple minutes of continuous shooting..
But i thought to myself once i reach around 30 frames, it starts to bog down in fps to catch up..
So i done some research and found out that, the memory buffer in the D810 is the same chip size and configuration meaning the number of connectors soldered in to the board as the D5 the only Difference is that the memory size and speed of the D5 is way lager and faster..
So i purchased this broken Nikon D5 for $150.00 for parts and then got my soldering iron to work.
I used a soldering suction unit that pulls solder that is melted when you heat it up by the press of a button, so this made it easy for me to remove the ships out of the board..
Then i went to work on my D810 and removed the chips from that, and replaced them with the memory from the D5,, Now this was a long shot i was not sure if the camera would even turn on and work after this, but low and behold yeah the camera turned on and worked fine..
Not only that, when i put the camera in continuous shooting mode and full raw image quality
for some reason the frames FPS rate increased to like 7 or 8 FPS not sure why that was effected but i'll take that.. and not only that, i was never able to over fill the buffer to make it start to bog down to catch up, i tested this holding the shutter button for over 4 minutes and it never slowed down one bit..
Now this was a major breakthrough for me, i was very pleased of the results, now i'm sure Nikon never expected some one to do this, because if they knew people may do this they would probably change the type of memory chip each camera takes, making it impossible to do..
Now i did check to see if Nikon would sell the Memory buffer chips for replacement parts, and see what this would cost, thinking to myself i could make some quick $$$ offering to upgrade peoples D810's to have this upgrade, how ever, sadly Nikon will not Sell any circuit board parts unless your a authorized repair dealer oh well.
the only parts they would sell is external parts like grip replacements eye piece, battery doors stuff like that..
So i share this with you if your able to get your hands on a Broken Nikon D5 that some one will sell for parts cheep and you got a Nikon D810 , and your feel comfortable working on circuit boards and can use a soldering iron, then you could turn your Nikon D810 to a camera that will do continuous shooting mode at around 7 to 8 FPS at an unlimited amount of shots with out slowing down..
this is really cool knowing that i can hold down the shutter button and not have to worry about running out of buffer, this is especially great if you want to do some TIMELAPSE shots at 1 frame per second and not have the camera crap out before your timelapse shots are done..
for me this was annoying when i wanted to capture 1 fps for 5 to 10 or even 20 min for a timelapse sequence but after like few seconds the damm buffer was filled up and would ruin my timelapse..
i would have to do it in JPEG at a medium quality,, I now can do this in RAW and if there is any work i want to do in lightroom i get full post options editing raw..
So this upgrade is really awesome..
BTW, this process to do this is quite difficult, unless you have taken camera's apart before and think you can put it back together with out ruining it, because in order to take this camera apart and you have to be careful of disconnecting the ribbon cables on the boards..
you need some tools and it takes about 1 hour to dismantle and another hour to put back together, so your total time if you know what your doing is about 2 and a half hours of work all said and done..
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