Hello William So, you ran similar tests :-) I got mine from Berlin in August 2004. So, it might be a late model. I like it very much, but judging from the red light at the back, it takes appr. half a minute to write a 5-shot-burst of RAW-files on to a Ultra II card. It will take the camera 10 sec's to write just one RAW-shot! This seemed too long to me - thus the test. I was actually surprised when I found out, that the camera could shoot more frames after just 9-10 seconds. In fact its only 6 seconds after finishing the first five. That all i must wait - 6 seconds. When shooting sports, people etc. 6 seconds seem like an eternity!
Regards Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 18. juni 2005 16:52 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Re: Fps and buffer test - Pentax *ist D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" Subject: Fps and buffer test - Pentax *ist D > It's often said that the *ist D is kinda slow and has a too small buffer. > So, I ran a little test: > > I took 6 shots of my kitchen clock. > I held the shutter down and took 5 RAW file shots in a row. I kept > pressing > the shutter - after the 5 frame burst - to see how long it would take the > camera to get ready for frame number six. > Here are the reslults: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/469145/ > > Comments are of course welcome! Your camera seems faster than my camera by about 4 seconds. I wonder if they didn't make an undocumented improvement to the camera. Mine is pretty early in the model run, I understand yours is a little later. William Robb
