why is the recycle time so bad on the internal flash 400D

AussieCat wrote in post #3981280
hahahah

u wrote:

Things you can do to speed up the flashes recycle time

1, make sure your battery is well charged
2, make sure your buffer is not full
2a, if your buffer is filling up to fast the reduce the quality of your shots
3, increase the ISO
4, use larger appertures
5, If your using an external flash add a battery pack to it.

I hope this helps you some but if you're using alot of flash please do youself a favour and use your external flash


some good point there thanksl mate haha.

i know one thing, iw ont be reducing my quailitu of images,

i do actually use a external battery grip and alwayt use fresh batteries

one thing that confused me,

how do u really empty your buffer? (make sur eits not full u said)

u mean - like dumping my images onto my laptop whenm i have used 2 gif out of my 4 gig memory card for example?

The buffer is a temporary storage space that the camera writes the images to before it writes them to the memory card. If you do a burst of 20 photos, then you will have to wait for all the images to be written from the buffer to the memory card before you can take more images... The only way you can improve the time it takes the camera to empty the buffer is either by 1. Using a faster memory card 2. Using a lower quality JPEG 3. Shooting less

I'd highly recommend you read your user manual.

hmmm

i have read all the notes on here

and the manual.

i have the fastere sandisk card in the world at the moment so thats not the issue
and the batteries are new...

so, yeah - i know know i will need to just put up with it.

i;;l use my 580 from now on now that i have the external flash again

EpHeSuS wrote in post #3981430
The buffer is a temporary storage space that the camera writes the images to before it writes them to the memory card. If you do a burst of 20 photos, then you will have to wait for all the images to be written from the buffer to the memory card before you can take more images... The only way you can improve the time it takes the camera to empty the buffer is either by 1. Using a faster memory card 2. Using a lower quality JPEG 3. Shooting less

I'd highly recommend you read your user manual.

I too have the 2-12sec recharge time after taking a few shots with the flash (first burst or two seems to be fine). I havnt done exhaustive testing, but it doesnt 'feel' as if battery charge has much to do with it. It can happen on a full battery in my experience.