I just wanted to shoot in RAW ...
Dec 3, 2012 21:36:48 #
Needing help from a really fine forum.
Newbie needing advice with Oly e410 ... tried my best to shoot in RAW for 1st time at night. But alas, I couldn't do it because my elected exposure time and RAW insutu processing(I guess?) conflicted. Anyway, the dang thing kept flashing a red button after each shot about equivalent to my exposure time(30 sec). this prevented me from activating the next shot until the flashing stopped. Can't find anything anywhere about it. What's happening and can I correct it?
ps Yet, I did complete my 1st quest at star tracking ... 134 exposures in JPEG, stacked(attached). just could do more post processing with RAW .... mumble
Newbie needing advice with Oly e410 ... tried my best to shoot in RAW for 1st time at night. But alas, I couldn't do it because my elected exposure time and RAW insutu processing(I guess?) conflicted. Anyway, the dang thing kept flashing a red button after each shot about equivalent to my exposure time(30 sec). this prevented me from activating the next shot until the flashing stopped. Can't find anything anywhere about it. What's happening and can I correct it?
ps Yet, I did complete my 1st quest at star tracking ... 134 exposures in JPEG, stacked(attached). just could do more post processing with RAW .... mumble
Dec 3, 2012 22:36:03 #
Dec 3, 2012 22:41:41 #
RAW photos are a much bigger file than JPEG- the flashing could be indicating a buffer problem but 30 seconds is a very long time so I'm not sure that is the problem.
What camera are you using and what type of card is in the camera?
What camera are you using and what type of card is in the camera?
Dec 3, 2012 22:48:22 #
Db7423 wrote:
What camera are you using?
He says its an Olympus E 410 in the original post.
The delay is that the processor is accumulating the image info in the buffer and transferring it to the memory card.
Dec 3, 2012 22:52:44 #
MT Shooter wrote:
A high quality, large & faster memory card will alleviate much of the waiting.The delay is that the processor is accumulating the image info in the buffer and transferring it to the memory card.
Dec 3, 2012 22:54:50 #
MT Shooter wrote:
He says its an Olympus E 410 in the original post.
The delay is that the processor is accumulating the image info in the buffer and transferring it to the memory card.
Db7423 wrote:
What camera are you using?
He says its an Olympus E 410 in the original post.
The delay is that the processor is accumulating the image info in the buffer and transferring it to the memory card.
Thanks, didn't see his original post. Anyway looks as if he has his answer.
Dec 3, 2012 22:57:45 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
MT Shooter wrote:
A high quality, large & faster memory card will alleviate much of the waiting.The delay is that the processor is accumulating the image info in the buffer and transferring it to the memory card.
It wouldn't hurt, but the Olympus E-4XX and E-5XX bodies suffer from extremely slow buffers made to work with the XD memory card. I have the E-420 and have seen the same issue. Using a 400x CF card from my D800's showed no appreciable increase in write speed. The E-620 was quite a bit faster.
Dec 3, 2012 23:14:22 #
Dec 4, 2012 05:27:45 #
It will be slow writing to card....if it's an old card.
I suspect you are taking a dark frame for noise reduction. That will equal exposure time.
You can either live with it or just take a single frame...ie turn noise reduction off.
I suspect you are taking a dark frame for noise reduction. That will equal exposure time.
You can either live with it or just take a single frame...ie turn noise reduction off.
Dec 4, 2012 06:19:38 #
I also thought long-exposure noise reduction, but sloscheider got there first. The giveaway is that it flashes for the same time as the exposure, which is right for long exposure noise reduction.
Dec 4, 2012 07:23:02 #
I have an Olympus E-PL1 with a Kingston 8GB Class 10 SDHC card, about £10 here in the UK. My RAW photos take 2-3 seconds to load.
A faster card might do the trick.
Cheers, John
A faster card might do the trick.
Cheers, John
Dec 4, 2012 07:36:51 #
Tropichal
Loc: Queensland, Australia.
You will find that noise reduction is switched on. The red light flashing is the camera taking the noise out of the photo by I think duplicating the image in a darker mode to take the noise out.
You can turn the noise reduction off but any long exposure will produce noise from heating the sensor up.
You can turn the noise reduction off but any long exposure will produce noise from heating the sensor up.
Dec 4, 2012 07:40:35 #
with noise reduction on it will flash for the same amount of time as the exposure...30 second exposure, 30 second wait time...do some reading...I suggest
Shooting stars by Phil Hart...google it.
FYI, 99.5% sure it is not your card, so ignore those responses to buying a new card.
Shooting stars by Phil Hart...google it.
FYI, 99.5% sure it is not your card, so ignore those responses to buying a new card.
Dec 4, 2012 10:36:47 #
Cdouthitt wrote:
Absolutely true. A faulty card would not work, a slow card would not be that slow - we would be talking of a second or two max.FYI, 99.5% sure it is not your card, so ignore those responses to buying a new card.
Dec 4, 2012 11:02:20 #
Long exposures need long in camera processing, not a card problem, My D700 takes many seconds when doing long exposures.
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