F500 continuous 12fps, where is it ??

[NIKO-007]

Its in the promo vid :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-QigdWIIo

its also in the manual (page 44 and 126), but i cant find it in the cam, have i been screwed, have fuji removed this feature from the F500 to make the F550 look better ?

All that i can see in the cam is final 3 and top 3, i cannot find the "continuous shooting setup" menu as depicted in the manual on page 44.

Even my vintage Finepix F10 had 40 frames continuous but at a slower rate.

Help appreciated.

 

[CAcreeks]

it's in the manual (page 44 and 126), but i cant find it in the cam, have i been screwed, have fuji removed this feature from the F500 to make the F550 look better ?

All that i can see in the cam is final 3 and top 3, i cannot find the "continuous shooting setup" menu as depicted in the manual on page 44.

The PDF I have says Final N, Best Frame, and AE Bracketing are F550EXR only. According to KimL's table comparing features, Top-12 is only available in S (small) size, either model.

http://kimletkeman.blogspot.com/2011/01/f550exr-and-f500exr-first-thoughts.html

Does your F500EXR have Last N or only Top N? There might be a small misprint in the table above.

Thanks for asking, because this clarifies a discrepancy. Some sites say continuous mode is 8 frames/second, others sources have a lower number. The manual says about regular Continuous mode: "frame rate varies with shutter speed."

 

[Baseman]

I don't have this camera, but a previous Fujifilm camera to yours, the E550, has that same feature for continous shooting. BUT it was only accessable from 'auto' mode. You couldn't find it unless you were in auto. Maybe the same thing for yours?

 

[NIKO-007]

Hmm iv'e tried every mode, all i get is final 3, top 3 and off, i have the latest firmware on 1.10, i suppose i can live without it but its false advertising when it shows it in the promo vid for this exact same model.

 

[CAcreeks]

Hmm i've tried every mode, all i get is final 3, top 3 and off, i have the latest firmware on 1.10d

Did you try setting Image Size from the F menu?

Specs say you can get Top 6 with M (medium) size, and Top 12 with S (small) size.

 

[NIKO-007]

Yeah CAcreeks, even when i go to the smallest image size (2M) its still the same, i cant see what i am doing wrong, unless its been removed.

 

[CAcreeks]

NIKO-007

All that i can see in the cam is final 3 and top 3, i cannot find the "continuous shooting setup" menu as depicted in the manual on page 44.

I can't find it on the F550 either! The only improvement is that it has top 4 instead of top 3. Plus various bracketing options and best frame capture, as in the manual.

On the F550 I can't even find final 4, which would be expected if the F500 has final 3.

There is no Continuous mode, as such. By that I mean "just keep taking pictures until memory fills." The hard-to-access Tools menu has Image Display "none" and Zoom Continuous, whatever that is, but neither setting allows you to hold down the shutter button and continue taking pictures until memory fills.

Whew, this section of the manual is way wrong!

 

[PAUL TILL]

 

[NIKO-007]

Ok Paul tnx for that, we need to ask fuji where the mysterious "CONTINUOUS SHOOTING SETUP" screen is.

Does any1 have the fuji support mail addy.

This is bull this is, they can't advertise features and not include em, do fuji do this often?

They need to watch this @ 1:20 :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-QigdWIIo

 

[PAUL TILL]

Ok Paul tnx for that, we need to ask fuji where the mysterious "CONTINUOUS SHOOTING SETUP" screen is.

Does any1 have the fuji support mail addy.

This is bull this is, they can't advertise features and not include em, do fuji do this often?

They need to watch this @ 1:20 :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-QigdWIIo

My 550 is still with Fuji awaiting a new lens but reading the pages I supplied above it looks like you just press the flash symbol on the dial once you have selected high speed shooting in the menu.

Paul.

 

[NIKO-007]

I cant find high speed shooting in my cam anywhere except for the top3 and final 3, i would love to know where the "continuous shooting setup" menu is.

If any1 out there with an F500 knows, pls let me know.

 

[wll]

BEST FRAME CAPTURE, in the continuous setting section, I just fired off 12 shots in a row !

wll

 

[wll]

I can't find a continuous mode on the F550 ! What I just did was something different. I can't choose the # of frames shot.

Hummmmmm !

wll

 

[wll]

The manual is correct, but the wording is a little strange.

Set the camera to TOP 4 than go back to the shooting mode as if you we going to take a pic (your NOT in the menu list), your looking at your monitor ready to take a pic ... THEN hit the flash sign on the right side. At that time the camera will give the continuous shooting speed etc, etc. You still have to play with it as different modes give different rates. The manual is very, very poor in explaining this.

Hope this helps !

wll

 

[PAUL TILL]

The manual is correct, but the wording is a little strange.

How?

Set the camera to TOP 4 than go back to the shooting mode as if you we going to take a pic (your NOT in the menu list), your looking at your monitor ready to take a pic ... THEN hit the flash sign on the right side. At that time the camera will give the continuous shooting speed etc, etc. You still have to play with it as different modes give different rates. The manual is very, very poor in explaining this.

That's exactly how the manual reads to me and what I showed above, If I can work that out without even having my camera with me then it must be a piece of cake with your camera in your hand.

Paul.

 

[NIKO-007]

Thanks for ur help on this guys, although somebody could have told me it don't work in EXR mode, i went to auto mode and the "high speed shooting" menu is there, pressing the flash button in EXR mode with continuous on does nothing and i didn't know this, the manual is a little vague, i am just a point n shoot guy that likes to mess a bit hence EXR is so me!

So, select manual mode on the dial, then press the f button and select continuous, choose top n or bottom n, then back out of the menu with the back button so that you are ready to shoot, then press the flash button, u will then be on the "continuous shooting setup" screen.

 

[NIKO-007]

And i just found out that if you go back to EXR mode your continuous/high speed settings are kept but the high speed part can only be edited in manual mode.

 

[CAcreeks]

So, select manual mode on the dial, then press the F button and select continuous, choose top n or bottom n, then back out of the menu with the back button so that you are ready to shoot, then press the flash button, you will then be on the "continuous shooting setup" screen.

The manual says to use the regular menu, not the F menu, but it probably doesn't make any difference. Also I believe "continuous shooting setup" can be done in P A S modes also.

Pretty terrible user-interface design, don't you think? Moreover the F550's absolute limit in M (medium) size is 16 frames with JPEG, 6 frames with RAW. It does not seem possible to keep shooting (with FIFO buffer) until the card fills up, as was possible on the F200EXR.

In experimenting, I was impressed by the speed of RAW shooting. The camera is ready to shoot again way before the RAW processing is finished. It is much faster than the official 5-6 second numbers I've seen.