1Ds Limiting my Frames per second? Help Please

A friend of mine has a new 1Ds mark III. He tries shooting in rapid succession in multi shot mode. Both high and low speed settings are limiting him to two frames in rapid succession before its buffer fills and lets him take two more. He is not getting 5 frames in a row. We have tried changing the file size from RAW all the way down to small JPEG. I have tried every setting I can think of. Even making sure the obvious shutter speed is more than high enough for rapid succession. Any thoughts? Oh yeah, the Compact flash card is an 8 Gig Sandisk Extreme III.

I don't have a Mk III, so the only thing I can think of to check is if there is some custom function enabled that would cause it to only take two frames. Other than that, I've got nothing for your friend.

EOS MAN1 wrote in post #5427474
A friend of mine has a new 1Ds mark III. He tries shooting in rapid succession in multi shot mode. Both high and low speed settings are limiting him to two frames in rapid succession before its buffer fills and lets him take two more. He is not getting 5 frames in a row. We have tried changing the file size from RAW all the way down to small JPEG. I have tried every setting I can think of. Even making sure the obvious shutter speed is more than high enough for rapid succession. Any thoughts? Oh yeah, the Compact flash card is an 8 Gig Sandisk Extreme III.

Turn off the noise reduction. Do noise removal afterwards.

I had exactly the same on my 1DsIII. Turned off the noise removal and it works like a dream.

Also check for tone priority, I think it does the same.

The speed of the card doesn't make any difference till you get buffer lockout. I now use Extreme IV which brings the lockout down to about 2 seconds.

Andrew

There you go. It's a menu/function issue, not a lens/body issue. Hope it works out for your friend

Yes - High ISO NR will do that. It's also possible to set the max. shots per burst in Continuous (CF III-17; Limit continuous shot count).

Question - Why would high ISO NR do this if not using high ISO?

bobbyz wrote in post #5427732
Question - Why would high ISO NR do this if not using high ISO?

Someone forgot an if() statement when they wrote the firmware?

Thanks guys!

litkaj wrote in post #5427906
Someone forgot an if() statement when they wrote the firmware?

yea... i do wish they gave you an option as to when to use high iso noise reduction and when to have it off without manually switching...

perhaps 1dmkiii's 1.2.4 will have that