Thread: 20D vs 400D
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Old 21-03-07, 13:59
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Originally Posted by Tannin View Post
Oh, and you won't need two of them in a hide to sound like a war zone. Have you heard any of the MP3s floating around the web? At 10 FPS and a design life of 300,000 actuations, if we shoot small JPGs to prevent the buffer getting full and ignore stopping to change flash cards and batteries, you could wear the thing out 8 hours and 20 minutes after opening the box for the first time.
So there might be a few of these being repaired under warranty...!

I know there is an advantage to higher fps, I just tell meyself there isn't as there's no way I can afford a 1D... much the same way that I tell myself that you don't need IS on a long lens... I'm almost believing it all now
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