Compact flash - XTI

What is the fastest Compact flash card that an XTI can handle ? I hace 133X and sandisk III . The camera is busy after 4 or 5 shots in a row .
If faster cards will get me up to a few more shots , I'll get a couple
The book says I can get up to 8 shots in continous mode [depending on everything] but I can't find what the fastest card the camera can handle is .
Example -
Bride - groom coming down isle after wedding .
3 steps later bride's maid
3 steps later bride's maid
3 steps later bride's maid - busy after 4 or 5 shots .
I was in 5th pew , ISO 400 - raw + jpeg , EFS 17-55 - IS on .
Camera has freshly charged batteries in grip . [maybe 25 shots during wedding]

The surroundings have a lot to do with the amount photos you can take. The thing that is limiting you the most is RAW and JPEG.
If you are using sandisc 3 that is as fast as your camera can utilize if I am not mistaken. I know it can not write fast enough for UMDA.

Here is a link to the XTI specs

r.morales wrote in post #8736783
What is the fastest Compact flash card that an XTI can handle ? I hace 133X and sandisk III . The camera is busy after 4 or 5 shots in a row .
If faster cards will get me up to a few more shots , I'll get a couple
The book says I can get up to 8 shots in continous mode [depending on everything] but I can't find what the fastest card the camera can handle is .
Example -
Bride - groom coming down isle after wedding .
3 steps later bride's maid
3 steps later bride's maid
3 steps later bride's maid - busy after 4 or 5 shots .
I was in 5th pew , ISO 400 - raw + jpeg , EFS 17-55 - IS on .
Camera has freshly charged batteries in grip . [maybe 25 shots during wedding]

It's your XTi's buffer that's also slow.

midnight_rider
Thanks - I looked there [canon mus.] and it says the same as book . Neither give the speed of cards , just they used a 512 mb .
I shoot both raw and jpeg because I give the shots away and most people can not view raw . I can generally fix problems in raw .
I take my mac and copy everyones pictures and I put mine [pictures] on their cards .
I don't really want to buy better cards right now , would rather get the new T1i ,

ISO 400 in a church? Were you using flash? Were you using the pop-up flash?

Yes it was in a church and no to flash on pictures coming down isle . Did use as fill flash on other pictures . The flash just takes too long to recharge when taking more than 3 shots in a row .
Sorry about late respnce , just noticed when deleting old subscriptions .

I would turn off the jpeg and only shoot in raw.

It's a hobby for me . I shoot Raw and JPEG because I can load jpegs from whatever on a card and take to costco , give to them , buy gas and take back to pictures .
I also take my mac , borrow other peoples cards copy them to mac and put my jpegs on their card .
You would be surprised how many people want a shot of family . I generaly get between 10 to 20 copies of shots I like and they are gone and people asking for more before we leave . generally 100 pictures - about $20 .

r.morales wrote in post #8918867
It's a hobby for me . I shoot Raw and JPEG because I can load jpegs from whatever on a card and take to costco , give to them , buy gas and take back to pictures .
I also take my mac , borrow other peoples cards copy them to mac and put my jpegs on their card .
You would be surprised how many people want a shot of family . I generaly get between 10 to 20 copies of shots I like and they are gone and people asking for more before we leave . generally 100 pictures - about $20 .

You can shoot in RAW and in less than a minute set up batch process in DPP to get your JPEGS. Experiment with it-it's easier than you might think.

That requires you to have access to a computer with DPP on it at all times. I shoot RAW+JPEG for much the same reasons. I then use DPP for anything I plan to do more with, and with several thousand shots at at time, starting a batch process may not take long, but finishing it sure does.

Most of the time , I am in a big hurry .
After weddding , quiensanara , anaversery -
I go to put in gas , turn on computer , put in credit card for gas , plug in firewire -add card , punch CC , removegas cap , open card , go to view ,sort - kind , start gas pumping , make a jpeg and a cr2 folder , drag raw into cr2 and jpeg into jpeg folder .
Check on gas , drag both folders to desktop . Say I want a reciept , drag card to trash , put in a different card .
Find a parking spot , park drag jpeg folder to new card , put card in pocket , put computer on charge and cover /hide . Take CF card into costco with a return address label - slap on bag hand to them [or what ever does 1 hour pics] generally get a pizza/hot dog - case of water , cokes , bag of bite size candies , eat pizza , hot dog - pick up pictures .
Go to reception , I am wandering around either borrowing other memery cards or taking more pictures . Load all pictures into computer and put on CD mine , yours , any body who gave me their card - I return card with CD .
This will sound kind of stupid to alot of you , but I get shots I would never have and other people do to . Camera #1 , 2 , 3 ETC has pictues I have never seen - people take shots and don't clear card and most of the time don't even print them .
Maybe eat , take batteries out to car and put on charge , take ones on charge and replace / put in camera .
Half charged batteries won't rapid fire as fast as full charged ones [Buffer speed changes with voltage]