Comments on: 6 months of DSLR action

By: a quick vent at found_drama

a quick vent at found_drama — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:01:47 +0000

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By: found_drama

found_drama — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:34:51 +0000

@Pete: I don’t think it’s the CF card. My guess is that the camera is doing some on-board post-processing (to convert from color to B&W) as it writes the image to the CF card (i.e., it’s performing some extra operation like scrubbing out color values). All the B&W that I’ve done has been post-processing in Aperture; and all the “BUSY” warnings I’ve gotten have been after I snapped off 5 or 6 images in quick succession and it gets busy trying to write them all down to the CF card out of the buffer.

There are some pretty good explanations in the Busch DSLR book. Check it out!

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:31:59 +0000

I have this same camera and share most of the same observations.

One thing that bothers me is that sometimes, not always (?), B&W photos take *much* longer to write to memory … when comparing file sizes later the B&W photos are not much larger, if at all, than color photos.

It’s also not all B&W photos, really don’t know the pattern, but sometimes the camera will display Busy for around five seconds before allowing you to snap the next photo.

I’m a super amateur photographer, so maybe this has some widely accepted explanation, but it really bothers me when I can’t capture a perfect pose because the camera is “Busy”.

Any ideas? I could buy a faster throughput card, but most photos are saved in a blink with no delay, so I wouldn’t think the problem lies there.