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camera feature that allows for easy shooting of several photos in a row

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What are the advantages of shooting in burst (continuous) mode?

If it was exactly 3 photos per shutter press, they were most likely using bracketing rather than simple burst shooting. Bracketing can be used for a number of different purposes, but the concept is t …
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What are the practical uses of low speed continuous drive (shooting) mode?

The main advantage is easier continuous shooting over an extended time. Generally, continuous shooting goes in to a buffer and eventually that buffer fills. When shooting high quality RAW images par …
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Why do cameras have so little buffer?

Keep in mind the data rate involved in photos is very high, even by memory standards. Say a camera can save 24 megapixel raw files at 30mb each and can take a shot at 1/500 of a second shutter speed. …
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Why shot-to-shot time is much slower than the max FPS in burst mode?

It may be that they are using a cheap buffer that doesn't support simultaneous read and write. If that is the case, then it would start writing to the memory card right away after taking the photo an …
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Lower quality photos in burst mode

Burst mode gives the camera less time to adjust focus while still maintaining the burst. On some cameras you can actually alter the priority of achieving solid focus vs keeping the burst rate up. On …
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