Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to all who took time to look and comment. Leo, I always shoot to the CF card - the SD is there only for overflows. Quibbles aside, the D800E is an awesome camera - it was perfect for 99% of the photographs, and most importantly, it gives me wide latitude in cropping. If you plan to use it with a tripod, landscapes, macro, etc, it has to be the greatest bargain going - MF quality at a fraction of the cost. John Shaw was shooting next to me with a D4 - he rattled off 75 continuous RAW shots before his buffer protested. Maybe a combo of a D800E and a D4 is the best to cover all types of photography..... Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > Jayanand, > > Were you shooting to the sd or the cf? > > Leo Wesson > Photographer | Videographer > www.leowesson.com > 817.733.9157 > > On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The absolute highlight of the whole trip to the pack ice around >> Spitsbergen was to see and photograph a Polar Bear raid a seal nursery >> chamber successfully. I captured most of the action, but the D800E has >> one big limitation for action - low FPS, and even more than that, >> limited buffer capacity (mainly due to the huge files), and that came >> and bit me in the butt big time. I had purchased this body full aware >> of this limitation, but (very unreasonably) it still irritates! I had >> no time to switch to the D700, which would have effortlessly taken the >> whole sequence. Anyway, here goes - it was a Female Polar Bear with >> two cubs: