D80 jamming up?

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Last night i was taking photos for school (A level performance) and in some acts, there was a fair bit of dancing and leaping around, stage lights were bright so i was getting some reasonably fast shutter speeds. :)

So though ah what the hell, and switched to continuous shooting. Now, after some long bursts i think i got the D80 screaming for mercey :lol:

Started to refuse to take anymore shots for a few seconds, and wouldnt let me review shots :help:

Now this was on RAW+basic so im thinking the buffer was getting clogged up with all the data i was jamming into the poor thing :bonk:

Anything i could do to stop it going "argh im not taking any more till you calm down" or am i just going to have to start saving for somthing more "pro" with a better performance in this situation? :lol:

Thanks all :wave:
 
If you just shoot in RAW rather than RAW+basic you will find that the buffer doesn't get clogged up as quick and also by shooting purely in Jpeg instead of RAW, you'll get more shots before the camera starts to have a spaz out about how hard you are working it!
 
darthsmidge said:
Last night i was taking photos for school (A level performance) and in some acts, there was a fair bit of dancing and leaping around, stage lights were bright so i was getting some reasonably fast shutter speeds. :)

So though ah what the hell, and switched to continuous shooting. Now, after some long bursts i think i got the D80 screaming for mercey :lol:

Started to refuse to take anymore shots for a few seconds, and wouldnt let me review shots :help:

Now this was on RAW+basic so im thinking the buffer was getting clogged up with all the data i was jamming into the poor thing :bonk:

Anything i could do to stop it going "argh im not taking any more till you calm down" or am i just going to have to start saving for somthing more "pro" with a better performance in this situation? :lol:

Thanks all :wave:
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What memory card are you using? It could be that the camera is not able to write to the card quick enough?

Run a test - start with a formatted card, set your D80 to continuous and fire away until it stops then see how many shots it records until the buffer is full.

Then try the same thing with it set to JPEG only - you should get more shots than with JPEG and RAW

Someone will know what the write speed of the D80 is....
 
Run a test - start with a formatted card, set your D80 to continuous and fire away until it stops then see how many shots it records until the buffer is full.
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It will also tell you this in your manual along with the FPS your camera can cope with.
 
Ah think I've got it nailed, with RAW+JPEG it shoots off about 6, then just stops, which i think is it just processing

On JPEG it shoots about 10, and slows down, as it seems to be able to write JPEGs fast enough to keep shooting without actually having to stop :)


And for the record, i was using a sandisk ultra 2 SDHC 4GB card

Thanks for the speedy reply guys :)
 
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