Z8 & Z9 shutters are like machine gun

[Discombobulated]

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

 

[Flowchart]

I've decided to ruthlessly cull my shots for this very reason


Fortunately we don't have to worry about shutter wear.

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

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[ghostfox_1]

I'm at 40k shots in 6 months, with 3 of those with me basically not shooting, or doing events owing to real life stuff that caused me to miss at least one good trip I would have shot probably 15k pictures on.

It's good to learn to lay off the shutter button sometimes for me, vs before when I just shot a lot more.

 

[ahinesdesign]

My Z9 is close to 100K images since Jan 1, 2023… by far the most I have shot in a bit over half a year, ever. Of course, I shoot nearly every day, and return from assignments with hundreds and even thousands of images more than I have on similar assignments in the past. I find that the silent shutter makes it very easy to lose track of how many frames you are actually capturing, never mind shooting at 20fps or using precapture!

 

[Billstek]

Faster than a machine gun! And don’t get me started on JPEG…

 

[rscott900ss]

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

I don't have a Z8 or Z9 (yet) but my Z 7II, D500 and D750 can all do OK in the continuous shooting department.

Surprisingly, I rarely rip off high frame rate bursts, even when I should. I guess it might go back to the film days when I bought motor drives for my Nikon bodies and quickly found out what they cost me in film processing money or lost shots while reloading film!

 

[Suntan]

I've decided to ruthlessly cull my shots for this very reason

Fortunately we don't have to worry about shutter wear.

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

Yup. Definitely calls for a different mindset to taking and culling pictures.

I shot over 7,000 frames at an airshow this weekend. (Partially just to fully stress test the camera in 96 F sun.) I've now moved to culling on the card and only downloading images intended to be processed.

The CFb cards are so fast that reviewing them on the card felt as fast as reviewing them on the computer SSD.

 

[GeoffRG]

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

Just because you can rattle through at silly frame rated doesn't mean you have to do so. I have my cameras set to single and I can still get plenty of frames per second simply by pressing the shutter button.

 

[Jake James]

I don't have a Z8 or Z9 (yet) but my Z 7II, D500 and D750 can all do OK in the continuous shooting department.

Surprisingly, I rarely rip off high frame rate bursts, even when I should. I guess it might go back to the film days when I bought motor drives for my Nikon bodies and quickly found out what they cost me in film processing money or lost shots while reloading film!

Same here, even after 20 yrs of Digital, I still shoot like each shot is 50 cents. Old Protocols from 35+ yrs of shooting Film, still Imbedded Deep

 

[Bob A L]

I'd give you dozens of thumbs up if I could. I kinda do the same, but in reality still shoot way more shots than I did with film. And in most cases it ends up being too many and I don't even do bursts. :-( It's a completely different world out there today for photography. But thankfully todays cameras still let us use the old slow method if we want.

 

[Bob A L]

Me too. I shoot way too many shots typically with afs single shot focus and shoot. Still easy to get a couple of shots a second off.

 

[stratman1976]

You store your pics on an ssd?? Expensive!

 

[Bob A L]

This brings up a question for dummies in this sort of thing. Do those that shoot in long bursts like this also typically shoot and save in RAW, or just jpeg? I can't envision how much space RAW in burst shooting could consume. Thanks in advance and I'll crawl back under my rock now.

 

[tundracamper]

Having to sort through thousands of images sounds miserable!

 

[Suntan]

Raw HE* at about 33MB per file.

With a Delkin Black 325GB card in the camera, the shots remaining on the top display shows 8.4k.

As far as reviewing/culling, Photo Mechanic is extremely fast for cycling through the images and selecting keepers, even before copying over to the PC.

 

[Charly3]

Having to sort through thousands of images sounds miserable!

As long as you review one by one it doesn´t only sound miserabe. But having a wide range open in LR in preview mode makes ist quite simple. Generously give a first star to a lot of them. Next round enlarge preview size and become a little more critical while giving out the second star. If some pics make it to 5 stars this way, they probabliy are worth to be reviewed full size. Coming back from a wedding shot with 15000 to 20000 pics it takes about an hour to find that bunch of simply even better pictures on CFB cards that don´t have any needs to copy pics to Computer first.

That said, I have just equipped the Z9 with memory for 106800 RAW* pics which should be just enough for about 1.5h of 20 pic/sec continuous shooting. We´ll see if I´m able to sort em this way too Kidding memory is for video purpose...

 

[Jake James]

This brings up a question for dummies in this sort of thing. Do those that shoot in long bursts like this also typically shoot and save in RAW, or just jpeg? I can't envision how much space RAW in burst shooting could consume. Thanks in advance and I'll crawl back under my rock now.

Kind of like how Kai(digitaltvrev) commented about about needing 15fps, 'to capture the "Magic Moment" '. Then he shows the subject to be a Post.

 

[ghostfox_1]

This brings up a question for dummies in this sort of thing. Do those that shoot in long bursts like this also typically shoot and save in RAW, or just jpeg? I can't envision how much space RAW in burst shooting could consume. Thanks in advance and I'll crawl back under my rock now.

Storage is cheap. 4tb drives are 100$. No reason not to shoot raw.

 

[capanikon]

My V1 would do 60fps.

My D3 does ... lemme look it up ... 11fps which I never use coz it's uncontrollable. I like to be able to reliably do single shots which is why I often use 5 or 6 fps almost all the time. So that way I can do single, or a series of shots w/o ever having to change drive mode settings.

My D2h would do 8fps which I also pretty much never used, preferring, again, 5-6 fps.

I started in film so I've still got that "film shooting discipline" mentality.

Overshooting will still affect the camera; raise temperatures and thus raise noise levels, increase card wear as cards only have so many read-write cycles before failure, reduce battery life of the camera, increase the time required to transfer files to a computer, increase photo application processing time, possibly necessitate installation of larger drives on your computer for pre-culling review of images you've made, and increase the amount of time it takes for the photographer to review images.

 

[Discombobulated]

It was so fun to burst and I predict 30,000 shots per year easily. I probably need a new SSD soon too.

I don't have a Z8 or Z9 (yet) but my Z 7II, D500 and D750 can all do OK in the continuous shooting department.

Surprisingly, I rarely rip off high frame rate bursts, even when I should. I guess it might go back to the film days when I bought motor drives for my Nikon bodies and quickly found out what they cost me in film processing money or lost shots while reloading film!

My first Nikon was FM2, I start photography earlier than most people because my family owned an optical equipment company (retired) I too very careful shooting film due to its cost. However, I own Z7 and Z8, I don't shoot more than 20FPS but mostly 8FPS which is about the same as Z7. The feel on Z8 is different... it makes you want to do it.