The quickest shot?

[MeGotsACanon]

Im trying to get rappid shooting on the A70. I found how to do it, but whats the optimus settings it should be on to get the quickest possible.

Im taking it out on a boat when wakeboarding. so it needs to have a quick shutter. Then needs to be the 2.2 sec shooting its meant to be capable of.

So my question: What mode, settings etc would u recomend for this?

[PeterS45]

You're taking your cam on the wakeboard????? I would love to see the pictures ;-)))))))

[Pewterpez]

he's taking the camera in the boat and taking pictures of the wakeboard ;) ;)


I'm not familiar with the A70, but I'd just leave it in auto mode, or if you must, play around with the shutter speeds until you get a small enough one that lets in enough light and keeps the blur away (remember that you'll be moving fast....or I'd hope you'd be :P )

[MeGotsACanon]

I wouldn't take it on the wakeboard, but i would take it on double skii's. I wouldn't fall off them and could get a pic of someone wakeboardn.

The main purpose is in the boat. I want to get the 2.2fps rappid shooting. Auto mote takes it time to decide what to do though. Therefore downgrading the fps.

I though the 1/2000 of a sec shutter would be the best but i dont know if it supports rappid shooting. Currently im on the quick speed. THe turn dial with the guy running. Thats the best i can do for now, but its not 2.2fps.

[Pewterpez]

hrm, according to the canon manual ( http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/customer/pdf/A60A70_CUGe.pdf page 87) you "just" hit the FUNC button, scroll to the shooting mode, and then move left or right until you get into the continuous shooting mode and then press FUNC again to exit. Now, you must hold the shutter button at halfway to determine focus, and then hold on the shutter to snap images at the 2.2 p/s....

They also note that the flash slows this down....but you shouldn't need that due to the brightness of being outdoors...and also, it could be refocusing everytime you're shooting, so try using manual focus (????)

those are just my ideas..I have the canon s50 and it seems to shoot at the 1.5 p/s the box says it can.

[MeGotsACanon]

I found how to do quick shots in the manual. Thats where it told me that different modes will have different fps. Due to the amount of work they have to do and stuff.

At the moment i reckon i'm getting 1 a second.

Just trying to find the optimum one.

[PeterS45]

Try setting the resolution to Medium and the compression to Normal. Then use the Shutter Priority and set the speed to 1/125, set the manual focus to infinity and fire away. That should do the trick. My S45 can also be set to HS and that even gives me a lot more than 2 fps.

[MeGotsACanon]

I managed to get 2fps!!!!!

I took photos of a stopwatch. Sad i know but gives good results. The first 6 photos managed the 2fps. After that a single shot chuged down to 1 photo every 3 seconds and just got worse.

Im thinking short bursts are fine, but what if we want a realy long burst of photos?

Peter: Once i figure out how to change my settings like that i'll see what i can get.

[PeterS45]

The slowing down in performance is caused by the internal memory of your camera. After taking a pictures it has to be transferred from the internal memory to the flash card, and that's not fast enough. So once the memory is full the camera can only take the next picture when the first picture you took has been transferred to the CF.

By the way, try using the "Fast Shutter" (the icon with the running figure).

[Pewterpez]

MeGotsACanon - what do you mean by a long burst of pictures?? like 30 pictures over 15 seconds??

well, that's physcially impossible with your camera, and well frankly, impossible with most cameras except for the high end DSLR's that have enough memory to cache that many frames during shooting....

[CyberDyneSystems]

lol,.. even the 10D will only give you 9 frames a 3 fps before it slows down to about one pic per second or slower .

[MeGotsACanon]

yeah thats what i got the 2fps on the runing guy.

Sucks about the limited picture taking. Would be good if you could beef up the mem like on a computer.

[MeGotsACanon]

Well i found a way to get a large burst of pictures.

Problem: they have to be 640 res and quality normal. I took them for 30 seconds without any problems. Just when i go wakeboarding i wont be able to print any clasisc face plants.

[PeterS45]

Yep, the only way to make sure the internal memory of your camera isn't filled up so soon is making smaller pics.