Rob Galbraith had updated the Nikon D3x’s product information website once again and this time it is about the D3x’s burst specification. Previously, Galbrait’s team updated the D3x’s high ISO reduction details and also its shooting capability in different image quality mode.
Some of the updates are as follows:
Nikon Imaging’s Japanese-language specifications appear to say that the FX Format (and possibly 5:4) frame rate is much slower, at 1.8 fps, climbing to 2.6 fps in DX Format mode. During a phone interview with Silverman we could hear the D3X, when snapping off 14 bit NEFs in succession in either FX Format or DX Format modes, was doing so at about the frame rates listed on the Japanese site.
Summary of Nikon’s D3X burst depth specifications:
- FX Format, Lossless Compressed 14 bit NEF (1.8 fps): 28 frames
- FX Format, Lossless Compressed 12 bit NEF (5 fps): 24 frames
- FX Format, JPEG Fine (5 fps): 44 frames
- DX Format, Lossless Compressed 14 bit NEF (2.6 fps): 52 frames
- DX Format, Lossless Compressed 12 bit NEF (7 fps): 32 frames
- DX Format, JPEG Fine (7 fps): 76 frames
Nikon states that the above numbers are derived from testing with a Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB card, though other UDMA-capable CompactFlash should provide similar numbers of frames in a burst.
Read the full product information of Nikon D3x by Rob Galbraith.
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