To get the 3 frames a second, you have to set the drive mode.
Continous auto-focus probably slows it down, since it does a new
focus every time you press the shutter, etc. The drive mode button
is left of the viewfinder. Press that, rotate selector to until you see
[[[]]] type indication in the top LCD. In normal drive mode, with either
continuos or single auto-focus, the camera will not fire unless
focus is locked (which you can override with an option). Hence,
if you press the shutter, it triggers auto-focus, then fires. In continuos
drive mode (different than focus mode) the camera fires as
long as the shutter is pressed. If you then use continuos autofocus,
you could get auto-focus delays. In single auto-focus with continuos
drive mode, you press the shutter, camera locks focus and then
just fires away at 3fps.
The cards have no effect on the speed of the 12 frame buffer in the
camera, only the amount of time to ship it off to the flash card and
clear the internal buffer.
At 01:08 AM 5/16/2004, Stephen wrote:
>Wayne,
>Well, I'm mystified by the results you guys are getting. I shot with the E-1
>extensively at the AMA Superbike race at Fontana using the nice 50-200 lens.
>I had the camera set for Continuous Focus. The cards we were using were 512
>meg Lexar Pro 40X Write Accelerated. Should be almost as fast as a SanDisk
>Ultra II. But here's the deal, I could often only take one frame at a time
>when focussing on and tracking a fast-moving object, and even then, I had to
>wait at times for the card to write. I think I saw a thread that Skip
>posted that the write speed slows way down when tracking autofocus, but all
>I can tell you what was my experience. There were times even taking pit
>shots that I wanted to squeeze off two or three frames in a row, and
>couldn't as the camera was writing to the card. I believe you guys, but I am
>mystified by why my experience was so different.
>
>-Stephen.
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