D60 question

[toycollector]

I just ordered a D60 (kit) from Ritz on Thursday and today the ship date has already slipped from May 16th to the 19th.....

I bought a 340Mb microdrive but have these questions.

It appears to me the D60 comes with no internal memory correct? So every picture you take is immediately written to your storage medium? Would the fps speed be slower with a microdrive vs. a flash card or is there actually internal memory to sustain the rated 3fps? I couldn't find info on this scanning the brochure.

I'm a newbie to digital cameras....but do have a Panasonic digital camcorder and a Canon Elan.

[Rudi]

The camera has an internal buffer, so the images are not written straight to the card. Your choice of storage medium will not affect the FPS. The images might take longer to write to a slower card, but, unless you fill the internal buffer to capacity, this will not slow you down, as the buffer will take care of things for you.

The buffer on the D60 is supposed to be much improved over the D30, so I doubt that you will find it a limitation...

HTH,

[mfulton]

Rudi wrote:
The camera has an internal buffer, so the images are not written straight to the card. Your choice of storage medium will not affect the FPS.


My experience with the D30 does not agree with this. My 1gb Microdrive is definitely faster than my 128mb CF card. Of course, you may get better results with different CF cards, but the card speed is definitely a factor.

It isn't the ability to take the 8 shots in 3 seconds that's affected. It's how quickly you can take shots after the buffer fills up. Once the buffer is full, you can't take another shot until at least one of the previous pictures is finshed being written to the card.

When I'm shooting in JPEG mode, there is a delay of perhaps 2 seconds per image, and in CRW RAW mode, there is a delay of 3-4 seconds per image. That's with the Microdrive. With my CF card, it's at least 50% slower.

[Rudi]

mfulton wrote:

It isn't the ability to take the 8 shots in 3 seconds that's affected. It's how quickly you can take shots after the buffer fills up. Once the buffer is full, you can't take another shot until at least one of the previous pictures is finshed being written to the card.




If you re-read my response above, you will see that it is exactly what I said, maybe not as clearly :)

[mfulton]

Rudi wrote:
If you re-read my response above, you will see that it is exactly what I said, maybe not as clearly :)

Yes, sorry about that. I read it again and in fact it was more clear the 2nd time around.