[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm. Possibly it has no relation to how full the card is. Possibly it relates to what type of image I am saving. I really haven't been able to pinpoint when exactly it happens. Could some images, containing more information (RAW), take longer to save? And what type of image would that be? (More colors, more details, more contrast?)
Or is that not likely to be it?
Or maybe it's when I take pictures fast, and it still hasn't finished saving the previous pic. It's just sometimes that little red save light comes on and stays on a fairly long time and I can't take another pic until it is done. Doesn't happen all the time.
I've been equating it with a full card.
Long exposure times result in longer processing time before an image is saved. This is only really noticable as exposure time grows to a half-second, and can actually take ten seconds or more if you took a 30-second exposure. I'm not sure what the mechanics are behind this phenominon; I suppose it has to do with processing together multiple CCD sensing cycles, or something like that. Note, during the processing time of which I speak, the SD light is not on. It comes on after that, as the image gets saved to the card.
You probably did hit the nail on the head when you mentioned taking several shots in quick succession. The camera's buffer holds something like five shots, and if you take a bunch in a burst like that, you'll notice some lagtime in writing out multiple files to the SD card.
