Continuous shooting on a D5100?

SnappyFS · Mar 2, 2012

I set my camera to the continuous shoot mode but it still only takes 1 picture at a time. I tried it in auto, and I think I tried it in some of the other settings.

Does continuous shooting require that you disable the flash maybe? I bought the D5100 as a refurb so I want to be sure this isn't a defect, but i'm guessing it is just a setting since I'm totally new to this camera and DSLR's.

blue_cheese · Mar 2, 2012

The cycle time of the onboard flash is not fast enough. You need a better add-on fliash that has sufficent cycle time.

SnappyFS · Mar 2, 2012

blue_cheese said:
The cycle time of the onboard flash is not fast enough. You need a better add-on fliash that has sufficent cycle time.

Should the camera do the 4 shots per second with the flash off?

blue_cheese · Mar 2, 2012

More or less, yes it should be 4fps, untill you fill up the buffer. At which point it may slow down to the trhoughput of your SD card. Once you fill up the camera memory, it needs to wait for the data to dump to the SD card before it takes the next shot. That depends on the speed of your card, also how many shots fit in the memory depends on what in camera processing is needed (Noise reduction, ADL, distortion correction, etc...)

and Yes, the full auto mode likes to pop up the flash, use the no flash auto, or PASM modes

SnappyFS · Mar 2, 2012

blue_cheese said:
More or less, yes it should be 4fps, untill you fill up the buffer. At which point it may slow down to the trhoughput of your SD card. Once you fill up the camera memory, it needs to wait for the data to dump to the SD card before it takes the next shot. That depends on the speed of your card, also how many shots fit in the memory depends on what in camera processing is needed (Noise reduction, ADL, distortion correction, etc...)

and Yes, the full auto mode likes to pop up the flash, use the no flash auto, or PASM modes

Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try it out this weekend

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