Max fps and MB-D10

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Chico - 30 Dec 2007 23:19 GMT

So I have had my D300 a few days and decided to test the speed.

I added the MB-D10 battery pack with Sanyo eneloop NiMH AA-size
batteries which should have given me 8 fps. I tunred the Custom
Setting d4 to 7 fps and started to test. It was fast as hell but I
dont know where to look to see how fast it was really going. Its not
in the camera display anywhere and no metadata seems to show this info
so how do you measure it ?

Also even though this makes sense, in A mode the shutter speed slows
way down when you zoom in. I was using an 18-200 mm lens with VR on I
also turned it off and when zoomed out to 18mm it was full speed but
as soon as I zoomed in, it slowed way down (sounded like 2 or 3 fps)
but again I dont know where to look to see the actual speed.

So 2 questions

(1) how do you measure or check the speed (fps)
(2) Why does it slow way down in A mode only when you zoom the lens in
on the subject ?

Thanks

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Chico - 31 Dec 2007 07:50 GMT

>So 2 questions
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Nikonians forum said this

The Nikonian Forum answered these.

(1) on a D300 the fps speed can be shown by pressing the INFO button
after the pictures are taken and the fps are indicated in the lower
left hand cornor of the screen

(2) The camera was trying to focus. Once the focus was turned off and
the NR and D-lighting were turned off I got the 8 fps and zooming in
was no longer a problem

So that looks like that is solved just wish in RAW the buffer would
not slow down after only 17 or 18 frames are taken. But perhaps a
better CF card would help.

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TH O - 31 Dec 2007 17:10 GMT

> So I have had my D300 a few days and decided to test the speed.
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> Thanks

Chico, just a helpful suggestion -- when you post your message and want
to people in multiple newsgroups to see it, just add multiple newsgroups
into the message window. That way when someone replies, their reply will
be seen in each newsgroup. Right now, you have multi-posted messages in
several newsgroups and the answers are spread out.

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Chico - 31 Dec 2007 18:28 GMT

>Chico, just a helpful suggestion -- when you post your message and want
>to people in multiple newsgroups to see it, just add multiple newsgroups
>into the message window. That way when someone replies, their reply will
>be seen in each newsgroup. Right now, you have multi-posted messages in
>several newsgroups and the answers are spread out.

Kewl did not know that thanks

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Jim - 31 Dec 2007 17:27 GMT

> So I have had my D300 a few days and decided to test the speed.
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(1) I would make test shots for about 10 seconds and count the number of
images it too,
(2) Perhaps it is having a hard time getting the exposure correct.
Jim

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me@mine.net - 31 Dec 2007 18:02 GMT

>(1) how do you measure or check the speed (fps)

Read the exif info time stamp?

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