Continuous vs One Shot

I wasn't able to find an answer after a search, so I hope I'm not repeating a question, but why wouldn't I always have my camera (Xti) set to continuous shot instead of one shot?

It seems like it'd be a smart idea to always have continuous on in case you ever need it. Continuous seems to take single shots just fine, although I find that most people who are used to their slow point and shoots tend to fire off a couple shots by accident every time they try to use my camera.

I usually leave my 30D on continuous. Low speed, not high - with high it's too hard to squeeze off a single shot without jabbing at the button.

-js

Not exactly! If I am shooting at the low end of the hand holdable range of shutter speeds, I squeeze the shutter very slowly to minimize motion blur. I am guaranteed to get 2 shots if I leave the mkII in hi-speed continuous.

No reason not to that I can think of really, unless you are doing timed release or remote release.

i left my 300d on continuous
but with the 40d on high speed...its hard to just get one shot.. (doable but not worth trying)

and its funny when you lend your camera to someone when its set to high
they freak out
this one girl left her finger on the button and got 8 shots of the same thing... 8!
hahah

SnlpeR wrote in post #5288754
i left my 300d on continuous
but with the 40d on high speed...its hard to just get one shot.. (doable but not worth trying)

and its funny when you lend your camera to someone when its set to high
they freak out
this one girl left her finger on the button and got 8 shots of the same thing... 8!
hahah

Yeah, I managed to get one to two shots everytime I set on high speed for 40D. Yet my gf freaked out, when the shots kept coming! She thought she did something wrong with the camera and it went berserk!

i shoot my 30D in continuous mde all the time..... i can take one shot or many..

When i take group shots of friends and i want to be in the picture i usually set the AF to servo mode and hi speed burst mode. then i pass it to whoever is pasing by, like a waiter. i tell them to point the red rectangle in the middle at us and most of the time they hold down the shutter release button and squeeze off a barrage of shots. The AF samples and i get a few shots to choose from.

when i put it in single shot i find it too risky. i might get shots where the shooter just locked focus on the wrong part of the picture. then it's hard to get people to line up for the same shot again so one long burst gets me enough pictures to pick from.

generally yeah i leave my MkII and MkIIN in high speed burst unless i am taking indoor shots or family functions. for fashion shows and other action photography i think it's just more logical to leave it in burst mode. i can control the shutter pretty easily to fire off one, two, three or more shots.

i think it also helps to learn how to trigger multiple shots with your finger without moving the body too much.

If you are shooting with strobes you might not want to keep it in continuous mode because it may not give your flash time enough to recycle. Also you might be taking 3 shots when you only really need to take one.

I leave my mark II N in low speed burst (which I have set at 4 fps) usually, because I found that I simply shot to much in hi-speed, to the point that it was bogging down my workflow.

Another thing: if I'm shooting at a very slow shutter speed I select high speed and rip off 8 or 10 shots. One of them might be steady.



-js

number six wrote in post #5288695
I usually leave my 30D on continuous. Low speed, not high - with high it's too hard to squeeze off a single shot without jabbing at the button.

-js

you need practice, 5fps is slow i can shoot a single shot at 10fps (only 75% of the time though:rolleyes

yea, continuous is generally good to use because there is no lag time between presses as there is with single shot (generally more than half second to second press with single shot, less than that on continuous). on 3fps max cameras, it's not like you can spray and pray and actually get something though... so it's more of for convenience rather than to make shooting more effective.