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140 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

5.7.1 SINGLE-SHOT ADVANCE
This is the most basic mode, which works like a point-and-shoot
does. Single Shot will take only one picture, no matter how long
your finger stays on the shutter release button.

5.7.2 CONTINUOUS ADVANCE

You can think of “continuous advance” as a modern-day
equivalent of a motor drive – if you hold the shutter release button
down, the camera will continue to take pictures until the buffer
fills or until the memory card is full. If autofocus is enabled, the camera
will autofocus before each image.

There are two speeds for Continuous Advance, and you can choose either
“Lo” or “Hi”. Low shoots at about 3.5 pictures per second, while “Hi”
goes at a whopping 10 pictures per second.
There’s an even faster speed available if that’s not enough for you
(described in the next section). Is the slower speed advantageous? A sports
photographer can tell you that there will be times when shooting more
slowly is better, and is in better keeping with the pace of activity.

5.7.3 CONTINUOUS PRIORITY AE
Okay, it’s not in the Drive Mode menu but it
makes sense to discuss it here. Informally known
as "12-pictures-per-second mode", this is an
impressive feature (Figure 5-10) and as long as
you understand what it can and can’t do you can
use it to its best advantage. Some guidelines for
its use:

 24 megapixels at 12 pictures-per-second is a Figure 5-10: 12-
LOT of data. And the fastest memory card pictures-per-second
you can buy today still cannot absorb the data mode.
as fast as the camera can produce it.
Therefore, you’re practically limited to the camera’s memory buffer,
which is greatly expanded over that of the original A77 and will let
you capture about 60 .jpgs (or 28 RAW files) before it fills up.

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