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Is it possible for a DSLR's buffer to decrease with age?
I have an almost 10 year old Nikon D70. The body has performed flawlessly in all the years I've owned it.
But today I was shooting some birds in front of my house and noticed that the viewfinder and top LCD was only displaying a capacity of 3 images instead of the usual 4 images.
Also the JPEG High/Large buffer is usually 9 images but now its only 7.
I've tried resetting the body and turning off everything that might affect the buffer such as the noise reduction ( I never use it during continuous shooting).
Could it be that one of the memory chips in the body has burnt out?. I'm using a Transcend 133x 16gb CF card which is overkill for this camera, I know but its the smallest size I could find.
Okay guess what. I'm used to shooting with my D7000 and haven't used my D70 in a while. I honestly thought that Noise reduction was turned off but guess what it was on. The buffer is back to 4 frames in RAW and 9 in JPEG Large/Fine.
@fhotoace would I really see much of an improvement with such an old body by using a faster CF card? I mean the buffer clears pretty quick with the x133 card. The D70's RAW files are only 6 to 7 MB so they are really small.
