Shooter Speed

Hi!

I have a 10D canon camera. I need to take 1 sec. interval pictures. I am using canons remote capture software but I doesn't work because of the speed time writting to the hard disk. It has to be directly to the hard drive cause I need to shoot over 10,000 frames. Any ideas?

Tanx a lot.

Shoot lower resolution?

Buy a 1D MKII.. or even a 1D will do

you wanna take pictures continuously for 2 and a half hours ?

You can buy a faster hard drive.... shoot lower resolution

Tanx a lot for your answers!

The problem with the 10D is it´s sluggish USB transfer speed. A 1D or 1DMkII using Firewire port will handle much faster transfer speeds. You need a firewire card in your computer also, of course.
In the 10D, as said, use Normal compression and Medium or maybe Small resolution to achieve 1fps. Also you´ll need the AC adapter to replace the battery, or you'll need a lot of changes for 10.000 pictures

they appear in any mode on the 300D :P

hmmm...

I wonder how many jpegs a MkII on the lowest res and highest compression would put on a 4GB Microdrive?

Anyway.. you'd still need to be tethered... for power.

I bet one 1DMKII battery would do it...

How come no one wants to ask what exactly bola is going to do with his/her 10,000 frames? That's almost 3 hours of nonstop action condensed into a super definition 10 minute film clip at 16 fps. I'm sure curious.

what you going to do with 10000 frames?

You might want to consider that SLRs have limited lifetime shutters, they're really not designed for continuous operation like this. Taking 10000 frames is a significant "hit" for the camera, you might not be able to do this too many times before the shutter wears out.

In any case, you might want to consider the relative value of taking these 10000 frames against the potential cost of repairing the camera.
-harry