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Pappa,
As Rhyx mentioned, the faster 'in-camera' sync'd card you can find, the better your buffer clearing capability and therefore, more shots to be had in burst.
However, if you find yourself not getting the sequence lengths you're hoping for, there are several other ways to get more shots.
Keep in mind, that GETTING the shots should be much more important than other settings that we think we need to have.
- Shoot JPG only. I assume you're shooting outdoors, and lighting conditions don't change that often (rising/setting sun would create a dynamic situation, though)
If you get it right in the camera with proper settings, you not only reduce your workflow, but you increase your buffer substantially.
- Lower ISO. This one is hard to come by usually, and means nothing when shooting RAW, but if JPG, the lower the ISO, the more compression can be had on the images, and therefore higher buffer.
- Shoot smaller files. Again, if shooting RAW, this matters not, but if you can shoot Medium resolution and fill the frame with your subject, so that cropping is minimum, then you'll get alot more photos. The other factor in this is how big of prints you (or customer) plan to make.
Personally, in my business, with up to 20 photographers per weekend shooting 350,000+ files in two days, we shoot Medium to Small JPG: 4-5Mpix. This does several things - allows our downloading and processing of images to quicker than full resolution images and our storage of said images to be alot less than it would be otherwise. Yet, we're still able to print images as large at 24x36 (or larger) with ease because we fill the frame with the lens.
Again, if by shooting RAW, you are limited to ... say ... 10 shots per sequence and then 15 seconds to clear the buffer, thereby limiting additional sequence shots, or your sequence length is limited, then you are not getting the shot needed. So RAW+missed shots is infinitely worse than JPG+got it.
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