Nikon D80 fps?

[sandiegojoey]

Hello,

 

I'm new to all of this, and love this site! I recently bought a Nikon D80 and

the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. I got great pictures at my daughters soccer game,

as well as the after game party.

 

However, the guy next to me was shooting with a Canon (model# ?) and that thing

sounded like a machine gun going off next to me. I'd guess he was getting 5

shots per second easy. I on the other hand couldn't get more than 1 per

second. I switched the VR off on the lens, increased my ISO to 400 even though

it was a sunny day here in San Diego, and still only 1 fps, perhaps 2 fps at

best. I was in continuous mode, manual white balance, manual ISO, Aperture

priority wide open and no improvement.

 

What am I doing wrong? The specs say this camera will shoot 3 fps.

 

Thank you,

Joey

[bill_carnicelli]

What happens when you set everything to Auto and continuous mode?

[ShunCheung]

Insert a blank SD card and switch on your camera. Verify that you can shoot at 3 frames/sec at that point. If you shoot continuously, once you fill up the memory buffer, the camera has to write to the card to make room for the next image, and that writing process is slow.

[w.smith]

Joey, your D80 will do 3 fps until the buffer is full (23 JPEG's, or 6 NEF's; rather impressive

for a non-pro cam actually). Those are at full resolution: 3872 x 2592.

 

However, if you decrease the resolution the cam will become considerably faster than 3 fps

(and capture many, many more exposures before the buffer is full too). That's probably

what your Canon buddy did.

 

Example: I can set my cam to 7 fps (100 exposures max.)! A machine gun would be

jealous! BUT the images are 800x600... That's the trade-off.

[mjt]

hi Joey ...

 

first off, it will depend upon which Canon they were shooting with, and since you don't know, we'll never know :) ... some examples follow:

 

(1) EOS Digital Rebel XT - 3 frames-per-second with a 14 frame burst.

(2) EOS 30D - User-selectable high-speed and low-speed continuous shooting at 5 fps or 3 fps - up to 30 (JPEG), 11 (RAW) or 9 (RAW+JPEG) consecutive frames when set at 5 fps and fast.

(3) EOS 5D - 3.0 fps up to 60 consecutive JPEG or 17 RAW frames in a burst.

(4) EOS-1Ds Mark II - 32 consecutive shots up to 4 frames-per-second.

 

additionally, the type of card you are using can help or hinder:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-8531

 

(personally, i exclusively use SanDisk Extreme III, where they be SD or CF)

 

regards, michael

[mjt]

hi again ...

 

i searched for an email i sent to a friend a while back about a very impromptu "speed test" i performed with SD cards in a D80 ... here's the important snippet:<br><br>

 

my very unscientific saturday morning test

between a 'standard' Sandisk SD card and

an Extreme III SD card ...<br><br>

 

* set the camera to 1600 ISO, 125 @ f2.8<br>

* set the camera to shoot RAW format only<br>

* formatted both cards before shooting<br>

* held the shutter release down until the<br>

camera hesitated (9 shots) (writes to card)<br>

* stopped the stopwatch when the<br>

green light went off (write to card stops)<br>

<br>

- about 10 seconds for the extreme iii<br>

- about 20 seconds for the standard card<br><br>

 

HIH ... michael

[aardvarko]

I don't know if this applies to the D80, but the D70 operates at reduced speeds ( around 1.5

FPS) under all exposure conditions when "Long Exposure NR" is enabled.

[aardvarko]

<i>However, if you decrease the resolution the cam will become considerably faster than 3

fps</i><br><br>No, you are limited by the speed of the mirror. The D80 never gets faster

than 3FPS. This might be true with some compact cameras, but D-SLRs have moving parts to

contend with.

[robertin_m]

<p><i>"I don't know if this applies to the D80, but the D70 operates at reduced speeds ( around 1.5 FPS) under all exposure conditions when "Long Exposure NR" is enabled."</i></p>

<p>My D70 is not slower when long NR is enabled. I shot @ 1/250, continous, ISO 1600 and I see no difference when shooting at full speed.

</p>

<p>What you are probably referring to is this happening at slower shutter speeds. Your camera is not going to achieve maximum fps rate if you have a slow shutter speed. Now, if you combine a slow shutter speed and a high ISO, yes, you may get longer shutter speeds. I do know that if you shoot at about 1 second it will take 2 seconds for the full exposure to complete because of the NR.</p>

[vuyisich]

Steve's digicams states here:

 

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_reviews/nikon_d80_pg8.html

 

that they were not able to achieve 3fps. The best they could do was ~2fps.

[aardvarko]

<i>What you are probably referring to is this happening at slower shutter speeds.

</i><br><Br>

 

No, I'm not. Test it.

[aardvarko]

Or read:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00B8wQ

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Bhkd

[aardvarko]

<a href='http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D80/D80A6.HTM'>

 

<br><br><i>The Nikon D80 has only one continuous mode, vs the two modes of the

D200. It normally shoots at 3 frames/second, but we found that this dropped to just under

two frames/second (0.54 second between shots, or 1.86 frames/second, to be precise)

when long-exposure noise reduction was enabled, even when using short shutter speeds.

- For best performance then, it's important to turn off long-exposure NR unless you're

actually shooting at very slow shutter speeds. (NOTE that Long Exposure NR is NOT reset

by the reset-all button combination! - You'll want to make sure that this option is disabled

if you need maximum shooting speed.)</i></a>

[aardvarko]

Tell me again that you can't see the difference between 2FPS and 3FPS.

[daviddbfotoart]

buy a d200

[thomas_polen]

Check out my Frames-Per-Second shootout at:

 

http://gear.tompolen.com

 

I demonstrate a D80 shooting 3fps, as well as a D2x in "Machine Gun" 8fps mode. Also, the D70 and D50 are utilized in the test.

 

Tom Polen

[joe_mib]

I had the same trouble. I checked the Noise Red. and made sure it was off. I finally figured out that you need to have ISO set 100 - 400 for the 3 FPS. Any iso hirer just shows the R06. At ISO 100 i got it to go to R09, and it never slowed down for 30 seconds 90 shots. I was using a 150x SD card, JPG Large, full size, manual focus, ISO 100 (non auto). I also was able to do it with ISo 400. But at ISO 800, things changed.

[crazy-b]

"Chris Combs, Nov 29, 2006; 01:44 p.m.

 

I don't know if this applies to the D80, but the D70 operates at reduced speeds ( around 1.5 FPS) under all exposure conditions when "Long Exposure NR" is enabled."

 

thanks allot, i've been searching for 3 hours to find an answer. mine was running at about 1.5 - 2 fps and i didn't know why.

[phil_thierry]

Hi,

my own experience with my D80 afther reading this,

 

1 Tried to get Max FPS and didn't get mote than 2 fps.

 

2 Tried whithout lens : same results

 

3 seached and found the NR setting, turned it OFF and now my D80 is shooting at least 3 FPS with an ULTRA II

card.

 

So I works for me

 

Thanks

[chinky_alex_mincy_killin_i]

<p>hey listen im trying to capture some butter skate footage for a skateboard company and since they use mostly high fps shots. i just bought this nikon d80 and have no clue how to use it is there anyway i can modify my nikon d80 to do say 9-15 fps?</p>

[mila-g]

<p>For me 1.2fps with NR On and >3 for NR Off... seems clear and obvious.</p>