Quote Originally Posted by havana_joe
Very odd indeed. I have the D40, which of course is a very basic model, and when I use continuous I get about 2-3 frames per second until I've taken 10-15 shots, then it slows down to about 1 frame per second until I stop. I've never had it stop to dump the buffer early, although once I release the button it does pause for a good 20-30 seconds to dump the buffer.

I use a Kingston 4GB SDHC card, but even with the basic SanDisk 2GB SD cards the performance is the same. I also use JPEG @ fine, and I can't imagine the D40 having a bigger buffer than the D3000.
I think I answered this question on some other forum, but I was curious to see what would happen with the D60, which is close to the D3000 (same 10Mpix sensor, same image processor). The D40 has a 6Mpix sensor and the previous generation image processor (I think):

- shooting RAW and JPG the D60 does 6 shots then slows down to about 1 shot per second
- shooting Basic JPG (smallest files) the D60 does 12 images then slows down but is still doing more than 1 image/second