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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seaspirit" data-source="post: 1590956" data-attributes="member: 65889">I still have a hard time believing that the D300s should be only capable of doing less than 3 frames /s when shooting RAW as stated above! That would be a major step back from the performace of the D300 in this department. As a matter of fact most entry level consumer cameras will get up to that rate shooting raw.Just checked my D300 manual.  Camera with the standard battery pack will take 6 frames/s in RAW or RAW + JPG, until the camera buffer is full (initial buffer capacity on my D300 when shooting raw shows 16-17 frames , i.e. good for ~3 s of high speed shooting). Then the frame rate will go down as new frames can only be taken as buffer frees up as frames are written to the memory card.  At this state you may have to live with 2 frames/s if you keep hammering away.  From my own experience and observation this claim is realistic.  However, one has to set the continous shooting mode to C High , as C Low will put the breaks on.With grip and the ENEL4e batteries the frame rate of the D300s remains at 6 frames/s, and only with alkalines or the large battery pack it will get boosted to 7 frames/s.That long exposure time will cut down the frame rate is a no brainer as the mirror has to go up and the shutter has to open for every frame.  Can't take 6 frames a second if a single frame is exposed with 1s .....Same is true if AF is trying to get a new fix between frames or VR has to do the same.  But this applies to all cameras, not only the new D300s.</blockquote>

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