Request Pro Capture in practice?

[R99C99]

I’ve used procapture a few times for ‘anticipation’ shots. Frankly it’s an amazing feature in my opinion. I have a couple of questions on how I am using it/could use it.

When shooting this artillery gun firing, I had no idea if it was 1 second away or 5 seconds away. I was trying to judge when to use the pre shot buffer. I typically half press and occasionally release and re-half press in order to clear the buffer. Holding it half down in anticipation constantly, although would cycle through only capturing the last pre shot number (as set in settings - 7 I think) would surely fill the buffer and slow down the camera at some point. I hazily recall once or twice finding that when I full pressed it was very slow to take the shot as the buffer was full (I assume).

How do you all handle this in practice?

Also this idea of using procapture for anticipating a shot made me think of my street shooting. I think it could be a great way to capture the moment before I’ve realised there’s a moment. But I don’t need my high shot count settings for street, maybe only 1-2 pre shots and 1-2 post. Do you know if I can change procapture settings to assign to a c mode? Eg leave my high shot count for my sports on C1 and assign a lower shot count pro capture to C2 for street?

Before I dive down the rabbit hole this weekend trying it all out I thought I’d ask!

Thanks all

[Bikie John]

I have tried it for rugby, and to my surprise didn't find it terribly useful. I tried it for place kicks (where the ball is on the ground and the kicker takes a run-up to hoof it towards the goal) and it did teach me a lot about when to take the best photo though. I ended up setting a fairly low frame rate - about 5fps if memory serves - and not many shots - maybe 2 before and 3 after or vice versa. If it would be useful I'll dig the camera out and check for you. I am using the slower mode where it focuses for each shot.

John

[MikeOxon]

I think the buffer continues re-cyling as long as you wish by simply overwriting the oldest images so that you always have the last 20 or so.

[R99C99]

I think the buffer continues re-cyling as long as you wish by simply overwriting the oldest images so that you always have the last 20 or so.

Thanks. This is my understanding, that it keeps recycling the pre capture images. But I’m worried this fills the memory/card writing buffer if recycling constantly. Just curious if there’s a
top tip for this. Thanks.

[KennyC]

No it does not fill the buffer. It just holds in the buffer the last few of the stream, in your case 7 files. Think of it as a continuous first in- last out continuum. You will not fillthecardbecause of thebuffer, but unless you limit the pre and post count to a very small number, you will end up with a lot of files on your card. For birding with my OM1 I use pro-cap high at 50fps with 10 frames pre capture and 40 frames post press, and I sent to total limit to 50 files. From a couple of hours birding this week I came home with about 1400 images, ending g up with about a dozen excellent keepers!

[R99C99]

Thanks for confirming KennyC