Yet another Mark II question

jeff lapoint

So I've looked via google, the search fxn here, at dpreview, and FM without any luck. So here goes...

I noticed in the EOS viewer utility software you can set the burst rate for high and low speeds. High speed gives you the choice of 8 and 5fps and maybe one other one. Low speed gives the choice of 3 and 2fps. Here's the question:

I'd like to set the fps to 8 for high speed and 5fps for low since 8 is sometimes overkill and 3 is pretty useless to me. Is this possible? Anyone know how to do it sice the option is not given in the software? Wonder is there is a hack for this...:wink

-j

jeff lapoint

Hmmm 29 views and no love. That means:

1. Really stupid question and no one wants to hurt my feelings
2. Really good question and no one knows the answer.
3. Irrelvant question...no one cares:cry

wxwax

Love to answer your questions, Jeff, it's just that I've never tried to mess with the burst rate.

jeff lapoint

wxwax wrote:

Love to answer your questions, Jeff, it's just that I've never tried to mess with the burst rate.

Thanks Sir Waxage. I'll keep lookin...

Great catapult quote BTW

pathfinder

Good question, but I've always used 8 FPS or none on my 1DMkll.

I never thought about changing it - that would be a nice feature, if able to be changed via a Personal Function.

jeff lapoint

pathfinder wrote:

Good question, but I've always used 8 FPS or none on my 1DMkll.

I never thought about changing it - that would be a nice feature, if able to be changed via a Personal Function.

Yeah, I'm a huge 8fps fan but 3 is worthless. 5 would be just right for things not moving quite so fast...

jeff lapoint

jeff lapoint wrote:

Yeah, I'm a huge 8fps fan but 3 is worthless. 5 would be just right for things not moving quite so fast...

I'm beginning to wonder if there are 2 "gears" that operate the shutter and the low one cannot be set to fire at over 3fps. I've been scouring the net with 0 results...maybe its not a software/firmware limitation but a hardware one instead