CanadaMark wrote: architect7 wrote: CanadaMark wrote: architect7 wrote:
I didn\'t see the need until I started photographing bird fights and diving ducks catching/eating fish. Some of those fights such as bald eagles, cormorants, etc. can really last a while and I easily eclipsed 10 seconds of activity on a regular basis shooting with my 7D2. Though I love my D810, hitting the 33 image buffer during the same type of situation is always a downer So it will be nice to have a purpose built body for the job again!
But totally agreed, standard BIF rarely requires that much of a burst unless by the grace of pure luck the bird is giving you multiple passes to up your keeper rate
How did you get a 10 second burst out of a 7D2? JPEG? When I was playing with one I recall the raw buffer being pretty tiny.
I had to check again, looks like I remembered incorrectly. With my Lexar 1066x CF card I was getting a burst of just under 100 images with RAW only.
Are you sure? Not a single reviewer could get more than 26-30 RAW\'s out of a single burst at max FPS, with either SD or CF. I couldn\'t either when I used one. That\'s awesome if you somehow were though.
I hit my 33 RAW buffer on my D810 quite often but I distinctly remember taking considerably more photos in a burst with my 7D2. I remember one specific set of an immature bald eagle in spring so I\'ll go back and look at the time stamps just to be sure
WestcoastHD wrote:
architect7 wrote:
Yep, though I\'ll personally be looking forward to leveraging the 200 image buffer...Now we get to have our cake and eat it too, this is very exciting! I am new to XQD but if that\'s what it takes, so be it. Just need to wait for an XQD sale which I am sure will happen more often as the D500 helps bring that format from pro-exclusive to mainstream.
The cost of fast XQD cards seems pretty high. The cost of UHS-2 is a lot less, but still not cheap for the 280 MB/s cards. The speed of the SD cards would work for me, though I would still have to replaced my older cards, so something to consider with the camera body.
Funny enough, right after my original post about waiting for XQD cards to go on sale, Adorama literally put all high end flash memory on sale including all XQD, UHS-II SDXC and CF cards. But you\'re right, the XQD even on sale still aren\'t cheap, $230 for 64GB is going to be a hard pill swallow after paying close to $1/GB for UDMA 7 CF cards during the right sales last year. I\'m still going to wait since we\'re still two months away but nice to see some initial sale pricing before the camera has even been released
Jan 14, 2016 at 02:57 PM
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So it will be nice to have a purpose built body for the job again!
