Seperating individual shots in a Multi-Burst capture ???

I have a Sony DSC-P72 and have discovered that the Multi-Burst feature is not as usefull as it sounded

I pretty much bought the camera for some low quality mountainbiking action pics.

Whilst a Multi-Burst file is still on the camera memory, it looks real cool as it flicks through the pics of the Multi-Burst but transfer it to the PC and I get a picture made up of 16 smaller pictures. This is not the final product I expected


What I hoped for was 16 seperate pictures so as I cn take the ones I want. Being captured as a 1.2meg file I am asuming there is a lot of data there and what I am wondering is there any way I can seperate the 1 picture into the 16 individual pictures using software of some kind??

You're right. That feature is not so great. There's a reason pros pay lots of money for cameras that can capture 5-8 frames per second. And 1.2 megabytes isn't very much data at all for 16 frames. You can crop out each frame, using Photoshop, or some other editing software. You'll end up with very small images, though. My suggestion would be to write that feature off as a novelty. If you want to shoot sequences, buy a camera that can shoot them at full resolution. The current standard with compact digitals is about 3 frames per second. Olympus made a camera, a few years ago, called the E100S. The E100S could capture 15 frames per second at a resolution of 1.3 megapixels per image. If that's something that interests you, check ebay for a used one. That might be a better fit for you. I don't know if people are selling those cameras, though. It's got a cult following. They call it the Uzi.

Thx for the advice mate. This camera was truely to get a feel for digis being my first. I also wanted to introduce my wife to the wonderful world of digigs and she is now quite happy with it now, shes a bit of a techno-gumby :)

I am sure I have learnt a valuable lesson which can be applied when I buy my next camera. My other issue is I like to take my camera riding so it needs to fit in a camlebak without causing too much of a burden. Any ideas on specific cameras?