D70s FPS

[jeryang]

I've noticed that my continuous shooting mode is much slower than the advertised "up to 3fps".

I spent an afternoon timing my continuous shooting mode and I was only able to shoot at about 1.5 shots a second which is just about half the speed quoted in the DCRP d70s review (2.9 fps) (http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/nikon/d70s-review/index.shtml). I tested in both Aperture & Shutter modes using a 1/6400 or 1/8000 as my shutter speed and I used a variety of ISO settings.

I use a San Disk Extreme III 2 gb card so I don't think card speed should be an issue. I shot with either a 50mm 1.8 or a 18-200mm VR.

Is there something I'm missing because I'd love to shoot at 3 fps? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. :)

[K1W1]

Do you have long exposure noise reduction turned on in your camera's menu?
If so turn it off because it is of no use to exposures less than about 1 second in length and all it does for shorter exposures is to double the processing time in camera which halves your frames per second in continuous shooting which is exactly the issue that you are reporting.

[jeryang]

Oh dude, you figured it out! I'm so excited!
Thanks.