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Naive question about memory cards.
Having given my trusty Pentax 43WR to my son to take to Iraq I am in
the market for a new point and shoot camera and memory card. Some advertisements imply that the higher speed cards inable one to take better action shots. My question: do higher speed cards have any advantage other than reducing the time it takes for the camera to recover between shots? |
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Naive question about memory cards.
On 2006-02-21, R. Frist wrote:
Having given my trusty Pentax 43WR to my son to take to Iraq I am in the market for a new point and shoot camera and memory card. Some advertisements imply that the higher speed cards inable one to take better action shots. My question: do higher speed cards have any advantage other than reducing the time it takes for the camera to recover between shots? Not as far as I've ever been able to discover. The biggest problem digital cameras have with 'action' shots is 'shutter lag': the delay between you squeezing the button and the camera actually taking the picture. This has nothing to do with the sort of memory card installed and is entirely down to the design of the camera; different models vary widely and for action shots, short shutter lag is a feature you should be looking for. This site is useful for comparing different models http://www.dpreview.com/. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Naive question about memory cards.
"Whiskers" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... On 2006-02-21, R. Frist wrote: Having given my trusty Pentax 43WR to my son to take to Iraq I am in the market for a new point and shoot camera and memory card. Some advertisements imply that the higher speed cards inable one to take better action shots. My question: do higher speed cards have any advantage other than reducing the time it takes for the camera to recover between shots? Not as far as I've ever been able to discover. The biggest problem digital cameras have with 'action' shots is 'shutter lag': the delay between you squeezing the button and the camera actually taking the picture. This has nothing to do with the sort of memory card installed and is entirely down to the design of the camera; different models vary widely and for action shots, short shutter lag is a feature you should be looking for. Although what you say is true I often switch to burst mode when I know that I'm going to take action shots to compensate for shutter lag. In that case the speed of the link between camera and card does make a difference on how much frames you can capture per second. The card may be the limiting factor or the camera. I tend to buy high speed cards to be on the safe side - the price difference doesn't seem to be worth bothering. Don't go for microdrives - they need more power and are more fragile. This site is useful for comparing different models http://www.dpreview.com/. I second that. Kind regards robert |
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Naive question about memory cards.
On 2006-02-21, Robert Klemme wrote:
snip Although what you say is true I often switch to burst mode when I know that I'm going to take action shots to compensate for shutter lag. snip Burst Mode: how to just miss the Decisive Moment, rapidly ) If I go out with the intention of catching action shots, I'd use a manual 35mm camera, not digital. Even 35mm SLRs have too much shutter lag to be really confident, although they are a lot better than most compact digital cameras. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Naive question about memory cards.
Whiskers wrote:
On 2006-02-21, Robert Klemme wrote: snip Although what you say is true I often switch to burst mode when I know that I'm going to take action shots to compensate for shutter lag. snip Burst Mode: how to just miss the Decisive Moment, rapidly ) It depends. There's a place for burst mode and there's a place for low shutter lag cameras. If I go out with the intention of catching action shots, I'd use a manual 35mm camera, not digital. Even 35mm SLRs have too much shutter lag to be really confident, although they are a lot better than most compact digital cameras. Sure. robert |
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