D3 buffer memory expansion

[Richard Peters]

Your certainly right to the extent of Spray and Pray, Machine gunning whatever you want to call it. That is a waste of time.

However for SPORTS you really need to shoot in regular bursts of 4-5 at a time for general action, when there is a goal and celebration or mind blowing sequence of action or controversial incident you keep shooting, Always. Not mindlessly hammering the shutter and filling the buffer but ensuring you get THE shot

You can't afford to be precious about it, if you don't get the shot somebody else will and thats your paycheck out of the window.

Agreed, it's not something that should be used all the time. When people say 'what happened to anticipation and timing' it makes me laugh. As well as the sport applications, with wildlife there are many many times where the action happens so fast you'd have very little chance of getting the shot if you anticipated the action, because if its erratic you can't. Boxing hare spring to mind as one example. I have a few shots where I fired a burst of 6, 7, 8 shots and every shot bar one in the middle is no good due to poor poses, and the shot that is good I never even 'saw' with my naked eye because it all happened so fast - so no chance of 'anticipating' that moment.

With wildlife and sport things can happen in the blink of an eye or fast enough that by the time you 'see' the shot with your eye and react to press the shutter, the moment is gone.

If you don't shoot anything that really requires high FPS then fine, but don't sit there and assume anyone who has to use it sometimes doesn't understand the subject they are shooting. Sometimes it's because you understand the subject that you know you need to fire a burst of shots.

 

[Tyke Tiler]

Agreed, it's not something that should be used all the time. When people say 'what happened to anticipation and timing' it makes me laugh. As well as the sport applications, with wildlife there are many many times where the action happens so fast you'd have very little chance of getting the shot if you anticipated the action, because if its erratic you can't. Boxing hare spring to mind as one example. I have a few shots where I fired a burst of 6, 7, 8 shots and every shot bar one in the middle is no good due to poor poses, and the shot that is good I never even 'saw' with my naked eye because it all happened so fast - so no chance of 'anticipating' that moment.

With wildlife and sport things can happen in the blink of an eye or fast enough that by the time you 'see' the shot with your eye and react to press the shutter, the moment is gone.

If you don't shoot anything that really requires high FPS then fine, but don't sit there and assume anyone who has to use it sometimes doesn't understand the subject they are shooting. Sometimes it's because you understand the subject that you know you need to fire a burst of shots.

Very, very well illustrated Peter.

 

[gman]

thanks for all the replies. and thanks tyke tiler for the detailed write up, i've actually been wanting another 2 cards so i will get the transcend 400x on your recommendation and see if it makes a difference, they're a lot cheaper than the sandisks too. if they transfer a lot faster than the sandisks i might not even bother with the buffer upgrade. it just seems to take forever for the buffer to empty to the card!

as for my shooting methods, i don't overdo it on the continous firing as it's not always needed but a controlled short burst of 3 frames can be the difference between a blur and a sharp shot. especially at 200mm and maybe less than a 200th of a second. 9fps can be very benificial when it's needed.

It'll be interesting to see the results of this as looking at the specs of the two cards they both seem to support UDMA.

Transcend

Sandisk

 

[Andrew Evans]

Agreed, it's not something that should be used all the time. When people say 'what happened to anticipation and timing' it makes me laugh. As well as the sport applications, with wildlife there are many many times where the action happens so fast you'd have very little chance of getting the shot if you anticipated the action, because if its erratic you can't. Boxing hare spring to mind as one example. I have a few shots where I fired a burst of 6, 7, 8 shots and every shot bar one in the middle is no good due to poor poses, and the shot that is good I never even 'saw' with my naked eye because it all happened so fast - so no chance of 'anticipating' that moment.

With wildlife and sport things can happen in the blink of an eye or fast enough that by the time you 'see' the shot with your eye and react to press the shutter, the moment is gone.

If you don't shoot anything that really requires high FPS then fine, but don't sit there and assume anyone who has to use it sometimes doesn't understand the subject they are shooting. Sometimes it's because you understand the subject that you know you need to fire a burst of shots.

yes, very well illustrated!