Pre-Capture

Field Technique

A burst mode that reaches back in time. With the shutter half-pressed the camera continuously keeps the newest frames in its buffer, thirty to seventy of them on a stacked sensor. At the full press it saves those frames plus a set afterward, so action that finished before you could react is already recorded. Lift your finger and half-press again, and the buffer resets.

Additional Information

Related Terms

Photography Blind

A pop-up fabric hide, sold in hunting departments, with ports to shoot through. Set it up and be still: birds and animals accept it as part of the landscape and come remarkably close.

Stacked Sensor

A sensor with its buffer memory built directly onto the back of the chip, so frames move off the sensor with almost no delay. That speed is what makes silent high-speed bursts and pre-capture buffers of thirty to seventy frames possible.