From the course: Learning Your Canon DSLR Camera
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Shooting in continuous (burst) mode
From the course: Learning Your Canon DSLR Camera
Shooting in continuous (burst) mode
- Out of the box, your camera shoots a single photo (camera beeps and shutter clicks) with each push of the shutter button. However, there are many shooting situations where it can be useful to shoot several photos in rapid-fire succession perhaps to catch the action of an athlete, or the perfect expression of a laughing child. Card space is cheap, after all, so you want to cover your bases and get a few extra shots in what's often used a technique called burst shooting, or continuous mode. Now, when you're shooting in continuous mode, your camera captures a continuous stream of shots. The camera stores the shots in a special area of its memory called the buffer. The buffer is just essentially temporary storage in the camera, and when it gets full, it transfers those images to the memory card, and if the buffer can't clear itself out fast enough, it'll actually stop shooting until there's room in the buffer again. The fact is is that you want to use a faster memory card, and the more…
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