High-speed test run.
Got my Sandisk Extreme Pro 16Gb 90Mb/s cards in my D3x and did a quick test-run.
http://www.sandisk.co.uk/Products/I...Extreme_Pro_CompactFlash_Card_90MBs_64GB.aspx
Shooting uncompressed 14-bit RAW at 500th sec, on Continuous-High, the camera fires at it's maximum speed of about 3fps as expected.
As the buffer fills, you can see the remaining shots start to slowly drop from the maximum of 16 after it hits about 14 frames: 10 shots remaining; after another five or six frames, 9 shots remaining and so forth.
It only hits '0,0' after 54 frames and then shoots at the Continuous-Low rate - continuously...it never stops firing...
When shooting JPEG-high, the maximum frame rate is upped to about 5fps as expected and the buffer starts to drop from it's maximum of 28 shots to 20, 15, 10 etc after about 15 frames, dropping slowly til it bottoms out at '0,0' after about 70 frames, then the camera continues firing at the Continuous-low speed - 3fps, until the card is completely filled...
It never actually stops firing until the card is full.
I got bored after 320 frames...
Theoretical capacity on each card is 300+ of 14-bit RAW and 1,000+ JPEG-High.
In practice I've gotten 300 images onto an 8Gb card that initially told me I would only get 203 onto it, so it depends on what you shoot...
Will I ever need this in a real-life shooting situation...nope, probably not...nice to have though...
Got my Sandisk Extreme Pro 16Gb 90Mb/s cards in my D3x and did a quick test-run.
http://www.sandisk.co.uk/Products/I...Extreme_Pro_CompactFlash_Card_90MBs_64GB.aspx
Shooting uncompressed 14-bit RAW at 500th sec, on Continuous-High, the camera fires at it's maximum speed of about 3fps as expected.
As the buffer fills, you can see the remaining shots start to slowly drop from the maximum of 16 after it hits about 14 frames: 10 shots remaining; after another five or six frames, 9 shots remaining and so forth.
It only hits '0,0' after 54 frames and then shoots at the Continuous-Low rate - continuously...it never stops firing...
When shooting JPEG-high, the maximum frame rate is upped to about 5fps as expected and the buffer starts to drop from it's maximum of 28 shots to 20, 15, 10 etc after about 15 frames, dropping slowly til it bottoms out at '0,0' after about 70 frames, then the camera continues firing at the Continuous-low speed - 3fps, until the card is completely filled...
It never actually stops firing until the card is full.
I got bored after 320 frames...
Theoretical capacity on each card is 300+ of 14-bit RAW and 1,000+ JPEG-High.
In practice I've gotten 300 images onto an 8Gb card that initially told me I would only get 203 onto it, so it depends on what you shoot...
Will I ever need this in a real-life shooting situation...nope, probably not...nice to have though...
