"Emptying the buffer" on a film camera is achieved by either by thumbing the film advance lever or automatically by the film advance motor. For a photo transfer to be faster by mechanics than by electronics in our multi GHz era is inexcusable. - My opinion...
Perhaps the time it takes to "empty the buffer" is actually shorter than mechanics, but we have different expectations for electronics than mechanics? If this is true, then perhaps a fake "film winding noise" (type and timber programmable of course) would be useful to give us a false sense that elapsed time is acceptable. Regards, Bob... From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 11 May 2004 at 21:56, John Francis wrote: > > > Further to that point: I was a little irritated to find just how often I was > > waiting for the *ist-D to empty the buffer during the race at Long Beach. Most > > of the time the buffer was large enough, but there were enough times when the > > camera wasn't ready to shoot for it to be a noticeable problem. > > There is nothing worse than when a stage artist comes right up to you and poses > for the camera and you have to "pretend you are shooting" whilst the buffer > empties :-(
