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Burst (Continuous)
By Vincent Bockaert
Burst or Continuous Shooting mode is the digital camera's ability to take several shots immediately one after another, similar to a film SLR camera with a motorwind.

 


Burst Mode
The digital camera's equivalent of the film camera's "motor drive," used to take multiple shots within a short period of time.
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Burst mode timing
Professional photographers have always used film-based cameras that were capable of taking several frames in one burst. Often as many as 4 to 5 fps (frames per second). This finished off a roll of film in a couple of seconds.

Starburst Effects
Turning the sun into a starburst can add a special something to a photograph. Making it happen though can seem like blind luck, but there is a secret to increasing your odds.

Zoom burst is a photographic technique, attainable with zoom lenses with a manual zoom ring. The term is sometimes attributed to Peter Bargh in his article Creative zoom bursts technique.

Burst Rate ­ number of images that a single digital camera can photograph sequentially before the camera will pause.

Burst mode. The ability of a camera to take one picture after another as long as you hold down the shutter release button.

Burst Mode
Cameras with large buffer memories can take shots continuously to the buffer capacity, hence a "burst" of pictures.
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Burst speed with DC motor (non-USM) lenses in AI Servo AF mode
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Burst Mode. Also know as continuous mode or "Auto wind" on older SLR's. However, today's Digital SLR's have bust modes of up to 8 frames per second. Great for sports and action shots.

Burst Mode - The ability to rapidly capture images as long as the shutter button is held down. Also called Continuous frame capture.
Byte - An ensemble of eight bits of memory in a computer.

Bursting Strength: The amount of uniformily applied pressure required to rupture a sheet of paper or corrugated product.

bursting strength
the pressure required to rupture paper or fabric in an instrument such as a Mullen tester or Scott ball burst machine under specified conditions, expressed in pounds per square inch.

Burst images
A series of images taken in rapid succession, captured at a preset speed. Burst images are usually used to capture a person or object in motion.

Starburst filer:
A photographic filter inscribed with one or more series of the fine, parallel lines. This creates the effect of 'streaks' from any highlights in a direction perpendicular to the rulings.

Starburst filters. These are simple glass filters with crosshatched lines engraved into them.

A burst of light used to illuminate a photographic subject so that the image may be recorded on film.

Continuous burst or capture mode
The ability to take multiple pictures in a small amount of time. Great for action shots.

Create a zoom burst image in Photoshop
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When I shoot in burst mode I get a print of small pictures. How do I print a single picture? Or do I just have to crop out the part I want to print?

Flash. 1. A short burst of light emitted by a flashbulb or electronic flash unit at the same time the film is exposed. 2. The equipment used to produce this light.

Set your camera to burst mode, frame your subject, brace yourself as firmly as you can, and squeeze the shutter button gently. Hold it down so that you fire off a burst of about 5 images.

Although many cameras now have a burst feature (where the camera can take multiple images within a second if the shutter button is held down), this feature is not always a good choice with action photography.

Slow sync fires a short burst of flash during a longer exposure to freeze objects while still allowing them to blur.
In very dim light, flash pictures show a well exposed foreground subject against a black background.

Burst rate is important in wildlife and sports photography where fast recycle time is essential. Digital cameras "write" the image file which can take a few seconds to do. Top end cameras solve this problem by adding RAM to the camera.

Often confused with sync speed is the term flash duration, which refers to the length of a single flash burst. This concept is closely related to shutter speed. However, we must be careful not to mistake one for the other.

With very fast shutter speeds the opening between 1st and 2nd curtain is never as large as the whole film so a single flash burst would lead to a partially unexposed film.

Keep the shutter open and record a burst from the moment it explodes to the time when it starts to fade. If you are taking only one burst, then you're done.

Many photographers use their equipment in short intensive bursts, such as a week's live aboard trip, or regularly for a few months during a summer diving season.

"open the shutter in low light and flash the flash remotely from a distance to give a burst of light in the far background" Hi Raoul, Yes this will work, ...

Using the flash as main light means that the majority of the scene is lit by the flash's burst of light. Fill flash is used to fill in shadows or areas that would be rendered too dark without additional light.

Later bulb designs incorporated plastic coatings, to try to prevent bulb bursts - or at least contain the broken glass. These coatings were usually coloured blue - to give a colour temperature closer to daylight for use with colour film.

It has a brief, intense burst of light, usually used where the lighting on the scene is inadequate for picture-taking. They are generally considered to have the same photographic effect as daylight.

Real time setting that causes the flash to burst in synchronises or instantaneously as the shuttle open up.

In the summer, hot on the heels of a season that positively bursts with varied hues, the color that most comes to mind is green. The landscape becomes a green carpet, and finding dramatic color combinations can be a daunting task.

Lengthen the Exposure Time: Keeping in mind that the average firework burst from launch to fadeout lasts anywhere from three to thirty seconds, you'll want to keep your camera's shutter open to capture this progression.

I wish that the successors to the 50D and 7D level of Canon cameras would have a five stop auto exposure compensation which could be accessed with burst mode. In other words, burst would shoot five shots +2, +1, 0, -1, -2 stops.

FLASH - (1) A brief, sudden burst of bright light from a flashbulb or an electronic flash unit; (2) An artificial light source that provides brief, bright illumination of a subject in order to properly expose photographic film; ...

Not to burst your bubble, but that new camera may wind up costing you hundreds or thousands more than you think!--there's much more to the full cost of a high resolution camera than the price of the camera.

An electronic source that produces a burst of light capable of freezing motion. Its Color Temperature approximates daylight.

One more of the many pioneering technology advances of Nikon, whereby the burst request made to the speedlight is based on a balanced exposure between the ambient light surrounding the subject and the light provided by the flash without making the ...

This is caused by the reflection of the flash burst on the iris of the eye. Many cameras have a red eye reduction feature that fires a "mini" flash of light to fool the iris into closing a bit before the real flash fires.

Flash: A flash is a sudden burst of light used to illuminate your subject indoors or in poor lit conditions. Many cameras, particularly point-and-shoot cameras, come with a built-in automatic flash.

Flash A brief, intense burst of light from a flashbulb or an electronic flash unit, usually used where the lighting on the scene is inadequate for picture-taking.

There are a couple of proven techniques; one is to set your camera to continuous auto focus and burst drive. As soon as your subject comes into view, focus on its grille and follow it with the camera. Keep shooting until it has passed.

The flash can be a real lifesaver, no doubt about it. This burst of artificial light can mean the difference between a decent photo and a totally blurry, unusable image.

A small device, usually built into digital cameras, that emits a brief burst of light to provide illumination.
emulsion:
The photosensitive, chemically active surface on photographic film and paper.

Camera speeds in the thousands of frames per second are used in scientific and experimental research to measure and observe such things as the fall of liquids, the speed of objects in flight, and the bursting characteristics of objects.

Cross Screen Filter: A clear filter etched with a fine grid pattern which produces "starburst" flare patterns around light sources in a scene.

A useful feature that reduces the lamp output to make the image gradually become darker on screen. This prevents the viewer from sudden bursts of light or dark as slides are changed and gives a more pleasing transition from one slide to the next.

To set their shots apart from the crowd, seasoned photographers will often search for a spot that provides a unique angle, or has other interesting elements aside from just the bursts of color.

Electronic flash requires high voltage, usually obtained through batteries and a voltage-multiplying circuit which discharge a brief, intensive burst. Generally considered to have the same photographic effect as daylight.

Many cameras offer auto-bracketing features that , when combined with the camera's burst or drive mode, will automatically shoot a series of bracketed shots.

X setting (X sync) is the setting that causes the flash to burst in synchronization with the shutter. For some manual cameras, the X synch speed refers to the maximum speed that the camera can synchronize with the flash.
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Also referred to a X-Sync it is the popular setting for electronic flash units that allow the flash to fire virtually instantaneously and reach full brightness immediately. No time delay is required as the flash is programmed to burst instantly as ...

X-rays would be produced by blackbody radiation at temperatures in excess of a million degrees. Sources of astrophysical X-rays include accretion disks, gas impacting on neutron stars, X-ray Bursters, ...

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