Increase Continuous Shoot

Morning All,

I'm new to the forum, so please accept my apologies if this question has been answered in the past ( I did look first).

I am using an EOS 500D, and find the 10 exposure continuous shoot a little limited.

Is it possible to increase this limit through a firm wear hack or PC link up?

I had heard of software that allows you to connect the camera to a pc via USB, and then control the exposure and setting from their, and was hoping this would be the key.......but i still have not found what I'm looking for.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Andy

p.s. my reason for wanting to do this is so that I can try multi shots of the night sky to stack in PS

Hi Andy, greetings!

Have you checked out an intervalometer?

You may also find "Magic Lantern" to be very helpfull, saves buying an intervalometer...

Slàinte

andyoftheg wrote in post #14851205
Morning All,


I am using an EOS 500D, and find the 10 exposure continuous shoot a little limited.

Do you mean the buffer size?
If so then as the buffer fills it will be writing to the memory card and as soon as there is space another image can be taken and written to the buffer - and so on.
There is absolutely nothing you can do to increase the size of the memory in the buffer.

What you can do is:
Use a smaller image resolution - increasing the number of images that the buffer can hold. Are you using RAW? If so use JPEGs.
Use a faster memory card - to write from and clear the buffer faster.

The speed of your memory card is most probably the bottleneck.
I don't know what speed card you are using but at least a Class 10 would help.

I think he's talking about the continuous shooting after the self timer has expired. Some of the simpler cameras have this gimmick. Perhaps only those that don't have the N3 connector, so they can't easily connect to Canon's TC-80N3.

Continuous shooting with self timer works like waiting the ten seconds, then taking the set number of frames in continuous mode. But then probably not more than ten in a row.

EOS Utility (free with camera) contains functionality to program timer controlled shots. Check to see if it has what's needed for you.

apersson850 wrote in post #14851329
Continuous shooting with self timer works like waiting the ten seconds, then taking the set number of frames in continuous mode. But then probably not more than ten in a row.

That is exactly what I'm talking about.
I'll have a look at the Utility disk and see what I can find.

Many thanks,

Andy

seall wrote in post #14851255
Hi Andy, greetings!

Have you checked out an intervalometer?

You may also find "Magic Lantern" to be very helpfull, saves buying an intervalometer...

Slàinte

shariffmorgan wrote in post #14851461
I you want technical detailed information about using magic lantern you can visit this link: http://magiclantern.wi​kia.com/wiki/Unified/U​serGuide , It has really helped me a lot as beginner, hope it works for you also.

Magic Lantern is your answer for sure. Intervalometer will fix you right up.

Also, if you use it and like it, throw a donation at the developers so they can keep up with new cameras and new features.