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.

That's okay, you can use that huge RAW file-saving pause, during all the action
that you have to capture, to try to change your lenses in time while that action
moves somewhere else. By the time your subjects are in a new spot you might have
that dslr lens changed in time. Even if taking single-frame shots, how many did
you miss while waiting for that RAW-buffer dump? 10? 20? 30? Really, how many.

A camera that can't capture an image when you want it to might as well be
sitting in a cabinet back home.

If it was a car that started then went for 1 block, then stopped for 5 minutes,
started and went for 1 block, then you had to wait another 5 minutes to
eventually, someday, get to your destination you'd take it back to the dealer or
manufacturer and wonder why they sold you a such major lemon. Like most any
dslr.