Quote:I went ahead a bought a promote control. Seems to work well, but it seems there is a long delay (1s) between shots in the HDR mode. I'm using the shutter cable, and have enabled it in the settings. Camera is 5d mark ii. How do I make the shots go faster?
Hi there,
I answered in the support ticket, but let me duplicate here - maybe this will help some other folks with 5D2. Unfortunately 5D2 is the slowest of the bunch that we tested with Promote Control - and it often cannot go much above 1-1.5 FPS (at least the way I tested it with RAW, no JPEG, no NR, Sandisk Extreme III). The reason is that we found 5D2 to be slower than other cameras (including lower level Canons) when it is controlled over USB. We found it helps to do the following:
1. Disable in-camera noise reduction if you have any.
2. If you shoot RAW+JPEG, try keeping RAW only.
Still, I spent 2 hours trying to make 5D2 go faster than 1.5FPS, but with its current firmware it was not going any faster. The 450D lying around was happily clicking at around 2-3 FPS though. I then tried to make 5D2 work faster when tethered to computer - but to no avail, it still took a maximum of 1-1.5 FPS. Looks like 5D2 has a speed problem with USB-based work - and we need USB to switch exposure speeds.
I don't know if Canon can fix that with a firmware... it does look like it's a firmware issue though, otherwise why would 450D be faster for 25% the price? I can only think of sensor resolution as a reason.