Also, I am new to bird photography and have a question about memory cards. I normally shoot landscape with a Canon 5d Mark2, but for bird shots have been using a new backup camera (Canon EOS 450) to maximize lens focal length. Does anybody familiar with this camera know which speed class of SDHC card will allow the maximum frame per second shooting? Thanks!!
Posted by bill meikle on January 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Tony, I'd guess it is an adult Red-shouldered Hawk but I am not very familiar with this one.
Re memory cards I usually use the 300X or whatever speed rating for my CF cards but it can be confusing and I don't know about SD cards and their characteristics. Probably the higher the speed rating the faster it will store your files and so the better the frame rate. Frame rate of course is also driven by file size eg RAW versus basic JPEG since it is the card speed and then the buffer size in the camera that counts.
Posted by dan elster on January 7, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Definetely a red shouldered hawk...no idea about memory cards though.
That will ensure that it's not your card that's slowing you down. Though the camera can't necessarily shoot as fast as it can write to the card, so the shutter speed, processing speed, or buffer speed could still slow you down. It might be possible to shoot at max rate with a slower card though, if it's not the card write speed limiting the shooting speed.
The rated speed is 3.5 FPS for up to 6 RAW frames or 53 JPG frames. On DPReview they actually achieved those numbers using 133X cards (there was really no limit for JPG).
Posted by Don Grall on January 9, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Look for a Class 6 SDHC card for your 450........My wife's T1i needs a minimum of Class 6 to be able to use the video feature, so from that I would guestimate it would also enable a faster frame rate capability.
Posted by bill meikle on January 10, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Oddly enough a red shouldered hawk just showed up in Colorado! Amazing.
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6 repliesCan you identify this hawk? Thanks!!
Also, I am new to bird photography and have a question about memory cards. I normally shoot landscape with a Canon 5d Mark2, but for bird shots have been using a new backup camera (Canon EOS 450) to maximize lens focal length. Does anybody familiar with this camera know which speed class of SDHC card will allow the maximum frame per second shooting? Thanks!!
Re memory cards I usually use the 300X or whatever speed rating for my CF cards but it can be confusing and I don't know about SD cards and their characteristics. Probably the higher the speed rating the faster it will store your files and so the better the frame rate. Frame rate of course is also driven by file size eg RAW versus basic JPEG since it is the card speed and then the buffer size in the camera that counts.
I use SanDisk Extreme III and Lexar 133x. Neither of them slow down my 1DIII shotting RAW at 10 FPS
My spouse's Rebel T1i (500D) never misses a beat shooting bursts of JPEGs with Sandisk Ultra II.
That will ensure that it's not your card that's slowing you down. Though the camera can't necessarily shoot as fast as it can write to the card, so the shutter speed, processing speed, or buffer speed could still slow you down. It might be possible to shoot at max rate with a slower card though, if it's not the card write speed limiting the shooting speed.
The rated speed is 3.5 FPS for up to 6 RAW frames or 53 JPG frames. On DPReview they actually achieved those numbers using 133X cards (there was really no limit for JPG).