Originally posted by Shakey Newbie question - is "burst speed" the same as "continuous shooting"? Trying to figure out how to shoot at 8 fps for the first time from the owners manual.
Your help would be appreciated. Thanks
Burst speed is the maximum frame rate the shutter and mirror etc will support, up to the number of frames it takes to fill the buffer (assuming no processing such as lens correction, auto white balance etc.). Once the buff is full, then there is a continuous rate that presents the throughput of the entire camera system ,
Note that generally there can be 2 or more different continuous ratings, one for RAW and one for JPEG(perhaps more for JPEG based upon image quality and processing ) since you can generally get more images per second with JPEG than raw simply due to data transfer rate in Mbps and the higher megabits per image in raw