The number of shots you can take, that's shown in the viewfinder, is an estimation/approximation of what the camera expects to happen. It's not magic truth.
The number of shots you can take, that's shown in the viewfinder, is an estimation/approximation of what the camera expects to happen. It's not magic truth.
Let me spell this out for you:Originally Posted by apersson850
1) Turn the camera on. Set it as desired. Observe buffer to be 12 shots.
2) Take one shot. Observe buffer to be 9 shots.
How does a 12-shot buffer dip to 9 on just one shot? Or, phrased differently, how screwed up does the estimation logic have to be for one shot to magically eat up 25% of the buffer?
We're a Canon/Profoto family: five cameras, sixteen lenses, fifteen Profoto lights, too many modifiers.
base assumption is JPG???? guessing. Clearly a software issue.
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Well, let me spell this out for you, then:
If the camera assumes you can take 12 photos, then it will show that. Then you take one photo. Based on how fast your memory card can store that photo, plus the size of the file, the camera may revise its estimate to that the continuous shooting buffer will be full already after nine shots, since it realizes that it's not getting rid of the already taken shots as fast as is theoretically possible, with the fastest card it can handle.
This happens - it's no magic at all. But if it's the answer to what you observe, I don't know. Just that it could be.
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