In message , Steve
writes

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:57:03 -0600, Pente-Champ
wrote:

On 29 Nov 2008 05:47:51 GMT, (Ray Fischer) wrote:

BarryHaps wrote:

Cool, the latest builds of CHDK have speeded up RAW+JPG file saving
time now of
1.080 to 1.100 seconds on my camera. It has an option to display the
file-write
time on each shot so you can see the speed you are getting.
Continuous RAW at
1fps up to the size of the card. Nice.

Sounds perfect for someone who wants to play with gadgets rather than
take pictures.

Tsk tsk tsk ... someone, who prides dslr's RAW file saving speed so as not to
miss any of those "pictures" is now slamming a whole family of inexpensive P&S
cameras that do it even faster with no slow-downs due to having to S-L-O-W-L-Y
dump a dslr's buffer to memory-card every 5 to 15 seconds.

Hate to tell you this, but those times for the P&S are crap compared
to even several year old DSLRs. Mine will shoot raw at 5fps for more
shots than I'll personally every need in a row.

Mine (which is a mid-range DSLR) will do 8fps form longer than any sane
person would need it especially using the UDMA CF cards.

So if, as you suggest 5fps is faster than a P&S then the P&S can't
compete with the newer and higher end DSLR's at all.

BTW the fallback "normal" speed for mine is 5fps

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