Posts: Saleavitt10 | Ugly Hedgehog

Mar 16, 2014 13:37:31 #

Mistress of the Manor

Absolutely beautiful!

Mar 14, 2014 20:08:53 #

Railroad Night image B&W a previous color conversion

Love it!

Mar 13, 2014 11:59:57 #

Outstretched Wings

I assume this isn't a recent shot!

Mar 13, 2014 08:10:29 #

(Introduce Yourself)

Clueless in Buffalo

Beautiful subject! Love pic #2!

Mar 13, 2014 07:40:06 #

johneccles wrote:

Hi Saleavitt10 , I would recommend you don't use RAW when shooting in "Burst or "Continuous" then you will be able to shoot for much longer before you camera has to dump your photos onto your SD card.
Cheers,
John

Thanks John. Weather permitting I'll get a chance to play with different strategies this weekend. We are in the midst of yet ANOTHER winter storm!

Mar 12, 2014 18:52:28 #

jeep_daddy wrote:

Having a small buffer is one of the D7100's shortfalls. If you want to shoot longer choose raw or jpg but not both. Shooting raw is best but will fill the buffer fast. I can't/wont shoot anything but raw.

Thanks Jeep Daddy, will try just raw then just jpg this weekend and compare differences.

Mar 12, 2014 13:31:52 #

Thanks OddJobber. It isn't always the number of shots I can get in a burst but the speed it takes to write them to the card and clear the buffer. By the time I fill up the buffer with 5-6 shots, the bird is usually gone anyway. It would be nice to have the buffer clear faster to be ready for when the next bird to comes along! With the D7100, I would probably be okay with the highest quality jpeg. On the rare occasion that I get a great shot, I want to be able to crop and enlarge to maybe 8 x 10's. I haven't really looked at the quality of the jpegs from this camera since I've only had it a short while. Maybe I can get some time in behind the eyepiece this weekend and try some experimentation with a faster card, burst shots and jpeg quality.

Thanks again. This is an awesome group!

Mar 12, 2014 13:24:35 #

Michael66 wrote:

I have the same camera and the same problem. Doin... (show quote)

Thanks Michael66.

Mar 12, 2014 11:41:41 #

I have a Nikon D7100. I have set it up to right raw to card 1 and jpeg to card 2. I photograph birds quite often and we all know how fast they can be. I have been using SanDisk Ultra's which are class 10, 30MB/s cards. I shoot birds in the Continuous High shooting speeds and it takes approx. 20 seconds to free up the buffer for more shots. If I go with a faster write speed card for card slot 1 do I also need the same speed card in slot 2 or does it matter? I am assuming it won't matter since the jpegs being written to card 2 are so much smaller than the raw being written to card 1.

Thanks for your opinions.

Mar 12, 2014 10:56:13 #

Bird Identification Please.

Nice photos. American Kestrel is one of my favorite raptors

Mar 10, 2014 17:43:48 #

Love my Chickadees

Linda From Maine wrote:

Bangor. Where do you call home?

Cumberland, just north of Portland.

Mar 9, 2014 23:29:05 #

Love my Chickadees

Linda From Maine wrote:

Cute catch :)

I really missed seeing my favorite of the little birds when I moved from Maine to Yakima, but in past few years, they've been around here more.

Thanks Linda. What area did you live in before you "transplanted"?