3+ fps point and shoot?

3+fps bursts from point-and-shooter?

 

Leica? Nikon? Contax? Ricoh? ...

 

For a specific photo essay, which good point and shoot ...either film OR digital

..not DSLR...will do 3 + frame-per-second bursts? Delays between bursts OK...

 

I want to do very fast short action sequences...almost like a movie, but higher

resolution than video....I don't mind shooting a lot of film, if film.

 

...a fast lens would be ideal...if wishes were horses...

3 fps sustained for how long? Seems to me that would be a rather important question.

Rob, I only need periodic short bursts. 15 second pauses in between might not matter...I could even tote two of these cameras, cutting the pauses in half.

 

I'm looking for a P&S rather than SLR or DSLR because I want to look unthreatening, like a tourist. Someone's already asked if I was an "investigator."

Maximum burst rate is going to be about 2-3 frames per second for 12 seconds or so with film (much less if using flash), assuming 36 exp films. Then you will have to stop to rewind and change films! I doubt very much that a digi p+s will buffer more than a few pictures at a time before pausing to write to the card.

Youy might need to get more sophisticated for what you want.

Canon AE1 Program supposedly does 4-5fps continuous (F1new approached 12fps continuous) ...silver versions of those plastic Canons always looked pretty touristy..I've got FD lenses but I want something compact with autofocus.

 

Changing film is no problem the way I understand my situation..and at the right price I can use two cameras, 72 frames.

The Contax G2 can do 4fps. It is just a tiny step up from a P&S and has great lenses.

Raymond, I've read that G2's autofocus is slow by comparison to better P&S, slower than Leica / Contax / Nikon P&S...what do you think? I'm photographing low light action...G2 lenses would be great...

 

Can G2 be set for bursts as opposed to click, click, click?

John,

 

A lot of digital point and shoots will do 3fps in short bursts with a high-speed mode (where no image review is shown). My four year old Canon A80 will do about 2.5fps but has a frame limit of 3 or 4 frames before the buffer is full.

I don't found the G2's autofocus to be slow. It will do 4fps as long as there is still an exposure left on the film.

John, The G2 (unlike the G1) has a prefocus button in the back where your thumb sits. It

makes the whole operation faster.

John, if we're referring to the Contax G2 (vs. the Canon G2, a digital p & s), I must agree with Jakob and Raymond that the Contax is very fast.

 

It has a small, center-only af sensor, but it is quite quick.

 

And the lenses (I've used only the 45/2 and the 90/2.8) are excellent.

 

If you don't mind film, and don't mind an "orphaned" line of cameras and lenses, I'd give the Contax serious consideration. Bargains can be had, comparatively speaking.