Get 8 FPS Frames per Second on Your D700 Without the Battery Grip
easyRobin says that you can get 8fps on your D700 if you don’t use the battery grip with a simple, easy procedure:
If you want the higher than standard FPS without the vertical grip, do the following:
First, make the following custom setting adjustments:
e5: Flash only
e6: Flash only
f4: Button press – Bracketing burst
f4: Button + dials – Bracketing modeSet exposure manually. Activate bracketing with the Fn + Command dial and set 9F (9 frames). Set your shooting mode to single-shot (S). Do not use flash. Then hold the Fn button and when you are ready to shoot, press the shutter release and continue holding the Fn button. The camera will fire up to 9 frames at 8 fps.
To continue shooting after 9 frames, you will need to let up on the shutter release and depress it again. If you fire fewer than 9 shots, you will only be able to shoot the remaining exposures in your 9-frame burst if you continue shooting again, without letting up on the shutter release again.
Since you have set auto bracketing to apply only to flash, your non-flash bracketing burst is fired at your manually set exposure — it is not bracketed.
Have fun, it really works!
Can anyone confirm this?
August 8th, 2008 at 16:57
This seams to work even on the d300. I’ll do more test tomorrow to confirm the fps
August 10th, 2008 at 14:13
I tried this and it’s not quite 8 fps. File info 2 in ViewNX gives you the time the pic was taken down to the hundredths of a sec. Doing the math 8 fps would be .125 sec between frames which would probably be displayed as .13 due to rounding. The shortest time I’ve seen is .14 sec, the longest is .22 with most with an average of .15.
1/.15 = 6.667
1/.14 = 7.14
I tried 5 fps and the time between frames was a consistent .2 sec. It would be interesting to see if someone with a grip actually sees .125 (or .13)….
August 16th, 2008 at 13:09
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December 9th, 2008 at 12:39
I tried this on D300 and i got 7 fps. I measured that by recording the shutter.