I think the buffer topic is
somewhat a result of dogmatic user views wrt JPG.
If you shoot really many shots in a row it is what I call "snapshots", because the whole reason is you do not really know what will be on the picture. Fine.
Then if I have a use case for anything like this, I switch to JPG *. I dont see the end of the buffer then prior to something like 70 shots. One image file is only about 5 MB, so the buffer clears 4-5 images per second of pausing. I assume basically noone will ever hit this limit.
JPG is really only limited in white balance and strong exposure corrections. So maybe for stage lighting conditions that is limiting, but most everywhere else in snapshot country? Certainly not an issue for sports or most of wildlife.
To put it simple: I see the real value of Raw only in very mixed strong artificial lighting situations and landscape or similar shots where you have extreme dynamic range. But landscape is not snapshot territory.
I think its fine when people want everything more, but the actual "limitations" tend to be very much niche or self inflicted scenarios. Not the "I could not get the shot" type.
Set up a nice JPG setting for later PP in a user mode and all this should be fine for many/most.
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Originally posted by monochrome Actually, the problem is the lens
In my experience
any screw driven lenses are bad for continuous shooting with tracking z-axis movement.
I think the camera AF prediction works fine, and even the simple drive speed of screw drive might be looking good, but the whole acceleratioon/deceleration thing with fine adjustments is not what screwdrive is good for. Part of it is (I guess) the sum of clearances in the whole gears involved then.
I am confident that you'd have much more sucess with a modern ring SDM lens such as a DFA 24-70.