Chris Whitmore

Nick, I have a Sandisk ultra II 32GB class 4 card. If you want to keep the burst rate up, these are the factors: 1) the lens sends data (focus, hyperfocal distance, metering, fstop, etc) back and forth and this taxes the image processing quite a bit. notice that if you zoom in while bursting your frame rate will go to 1 or less. So, manual focus and manual exposure and no zooming will give you the best rate. Or better yet, use a manual lens. 2)The smallest setting jpg is the best way to go. the files end up being a 280k-360k a piece (16:9 small=1920x1080jpg) which at 3.3fps is a datarate that the card and the cam can keep up with for a long time. good luck! c

thx muc bursting! -i was bursting. on the GH1 you can burst at 3.3fps forever if the filesize setting is low and not raw, and if you have a good card. workflow: adobe bridge -> adobe raw to batch crop and exposure work -> folders of images for a rough edit -> FCP.

Thanks for the kind words Nickolas. This was all done with stills on the GH1. There are a few clips with a D70s but 95% are the Gh1 in hi burst mode. ~3 frames/sec (about 6800 frames)