Zackiedawg
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Quite true Juan - there's always consideration of the particular camera and lens being used as to how fast it can wake from sleep, or from off. When setting a sleep mode, that's certainly something to decide where best to compromise.
My particular mirrorless camera wakes pretty quickly from sleep - under 1 second - and my typical birding lens is a 100-400mm that's a manual zoom, so I don't have to worry about the lens contracting and having to go back out. With the RX10 series, that's something that needs to be considered since that will add a second or so to the total time to be ready to shoot. Most mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras will likely be in the range of 1/2 second to 1 1/2 seconds to be ready to shoot from sleep mode. And I too occasionally use shortcut methods to 'wake' my camera - even with DSLRs I do this - when I first spot a bird that I think might be interesting, before the camera has even been pulled up to my eye, I half-press the shutter to start waking it - by the time I pull it up to my eye, the camera is awake and ready because of the 1/2 second to 1 second that it takes to bring up the camera and get it on target. Generally this works well for mirrorless cameras. Bridge cameras usually are a bit slower, mostly due to the retracting lens.
With my A6300, I rarely use more than one battery in a day's shoot...though I carry two extra spares just in case. In the winter, when Florida is really hopping with migration and wintering birds, my busiest days might involve 5-6 hours of shooting, and 2,000+ frames...if things are really spectacular. One battery typically takes me to 1,200 to 1,500 frames...so on those rare busy days I'll get into the second battery. I don't think I've ever needed the 3rd - but it makes me feel better to know it's there. My camera's official CIPA rating is 450...so I easily exceed that. I typically shoot in the 8fps burst mode and only use continuous frame rates when shooting BIF...for non-flying birds, I tend to keep my camera in 3fps continuous mode, and only shoot a few shots. Birds in Flight, I may shoot anywhere from 5-30 shots in a sequence - I'm not one for holding down the shutter and just firing away - I tend to do shorter bursts of 5-10 at a time, release, reacquire, and then another short burst. 8fps is more than enough for my needs with birds - I have played with faster bursts, but find they don't do any better for hit rate, rarely give me any more chance of capturing just the right position, and require me to sort through far too many photos later!
My particular mirrorless camera wakes pretty quickly from sleep - under 1 second - and my typical birding lens is a 100-400mm that's a manual zoom, so I don't have to worry about the lens contracting and having to go back out. With the RX10 series, that's something that needs to be considered since that will add a second or so to the total time to be ready to shoot. Most mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras will likely be in the range of 1/2 second to 1 1/2 seconds to be ready to shoot from sleep mode. And I too occasionally use shortcut methods to 'wake' my camera - even with DSLRs I do this - when I first spot a bird that I think might be interesting, before the camera has even been pulled up to my eye, I half-press the shutter to start waking it - by the time I pull it up to my eye, the camera is awake and ready because of the 1/2 second to 1 second that it takes to bring up the camera and get it on target. Generally this works well for mirrorless cameras. Bridge cameras usually are a bit slower, mostly due to the retracting lens.
With my A6300, I rarely use more than one battery in a day's shoot...though I carry two extra spares just in case. In the winter, when Florida is really hopping with migration and wintering birds, my busiest days might involve 5-6 hours of shooting, and 2,000+ frames...if things are really spectacular. One battery typically takes me to 1,200 to 1,500 frames...so on those rare busy days I'll get into the second battery. I don't think I've ever needed the 3rd - but it makes me feel better to know it's there. My camera's official CIPA rating is 450...so I easily exceed that. I typically shoot in the 8fps burst mode and only use continuous frame rates when shooting BIF...for non-flying birds, I tend to keep my camera in 3fps continuous mode, and only shoot a few shots. Birds in Flight, I may shoot anywhere from 5-30 shots in a sequence - I'm not one for holding down the shutter and just firing away - I tend to do shorter bursts of 5-10 at a time, release, reacquire, and then another short burst. 8fps is more than enough for my needs with birds - I have played with faster bursts, but find they don't do any better for hit rate, rarely give me any more chance of capturing just the right position, and require me to sort through far too many photos later!
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