Ed Hurst
Well-known member
Hello all,
I have a question about the Nikon D850. Assuming that I am shooting uncompressed RAWs in the format that produces the best quality, do you know what the shortest exposure time is that allows unlimited sequences of RAWs to be shot and written to the card? Assume a card fast enough not to be the bottleneck (so the speed bottleneck is the camera). I often shoot hundreds or thousands of consecutive files for star trails, so I am looking for the shutter speed at which the camera can do this continuously without stopping to clear the buffer. On my Pentax 645Z, I find it will shoot 2 second exposures like this without pausing at all - until the card is full. However, exposures shorter than 2 seconds cause the camera to pause from time to time while the processing/writing catches up with the writing to the card.
So what's the magic number for the Nikon D850?
Obviously I am looking for an answer validated in practical experience if possible
Many thanks in advance...
Ed
I have a question about the Nikon D850. Assuming that I am shooting uncompressed RAWs in the format that produces the best quality, do you know what the shortest exposure time is that allows unlimited sequences of RAWs to be shot and written to the card? Assume a card fast enough not to be the bottleneck (so the speed bottleneck is the camera). I often shoot hundreds or thousands of consecutive files for star trails, so I am looking for the shutter speed at which the camera can do this continuously without stopping to clear the buffer. On my Pentax 645Z, I find it will shoot 2 second exposures like this without pausing at all - until the card is full. However, exposures shorter than 2 seconds cause the camera to pause from time to time while the processing/writing catches up with the writing to the card.
So what's the magic number for the Nikon D850?
Obviously I am looking for an answer validated in practical experience if possible
Many thanks in advance...
Ed