40D high speed shooting mode - 6 shots max on any quality setting..

[SpeedingSphere]

Well I've come to one thing with which I've had difficulty doing with this cam. The high speed(6.5fps) shooting rate.

I see on all of the youtube videos and whatnot, the 40D can fire off a string of unlimited high speed shots when there is no card inserted, while mine can only shoot off 6 and then it switches to a low speed.. Whats up with this?? There isn't any card inserted so I dont know why it needs to slow down when the shots arent being written. Can anybody provide any insight?

[SpeedingSphere]

heres a video of it.. just craps out in the middle of it.. :-/

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t=S5030051.flv

[mjs1973]

Interesting Mike. I just tried this with my 40D and it kept right on shooting. Even with a card, I was able to rattle off about 25 shots (RAW) before the camera had to slow down a bit to write to the card.

[Photo-John]

I just tried it with mine. If I pointed it at a very dark subject it would seemingly shoot at high speed forever. But when I point it at my computer monitor it shoots 9 or so frames and then slows down and says "busy" in the viewfinder. Obviously, it's busy doing something. I'm not sure what, though.

[SpeedingSphere]

found out something else. If you flip it to sports mode, it'll fire right through to 60 shots in raw no matter what I'm pointing at..

[Photo-John]

found out something else. If you flip it to sports mode, it'll fire right through to 60 shots in raw no matter what I'm pointing at..

Hmmmm. I shoot in manual exposure mode. I like to make my own mistakes.

[SpeedingSphere]

Not saying that I shoot in sports mode. I'm just saying that it does work in sports mode but not in manual or AV/TV..

I cant find any reason for this.. weird..

[mjs1973]

That is weird. I was testing mine in manual mode and it worked fine. I tried it with the lens cap on, and with it off pointing at my monitor.