Amateur Photographer

Pre-capture bursts explained

t’s all very well having a camera that can shoot at 10fps, 20fps, 40fps or even more, but very often the problem is not how fast the camera can shoot, but how fast you can react. Many subjects are unpredictable. You don’t know the precise moment when a bird will take flight, for example, or when the starting gun will fire for a sprint race. If you wait for that moment before you start shooting, you will almost certainly miss

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