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Old 08-27-2005, 11:38 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Vianna Szabo
... Unfortunately the little guy was teething something fierce and was in constant motion looking for something to chomp on. ... Any advice on how to cut the delay time?
Vianna
Hi Vianna, i can appreciate the painful sessions you must go through with your camera. My camera, the Fuji FinePix S5500 comes with continuous shots functions but i have problems with delays too. In fact, even for the best digital SLRs in the markets still experience some forms of delays.

After checking out your cam model on dpreview.com, i reckon you can do two things for yourself :
(1) change the memory card
(2) Set your cam to high speeds
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/spec...x_optio33l.asp

Your model can do multiple shots too (see ? on continuous drive on the website). I met a professional photographer and he swears that different memory cards have different "transfer speeds" - the speed of transferring the photo-shot onto the memory card. He said to look out for cards with 80X or higher transfer speeds...of course, that comes with higher prices.

Next, your cam does a whopping max speed of 1/1500 sec shots. So that's another enhancement that you can use for those lightning quick shots you sought to take.

Hope all this helps your work from now on!
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