K7 FPS and in-camera noise reduction

I am covering the Grizedale Rally(car) this Saturday it will be the first time I’ve used my new K7 in anger.
I always shoot in Raw and need fast FPS, can anyone tell me if having in-camera noise reduction on slows down the FPS on the K7.
Cheers
Steve

Well it must slow it down a little, since by definition, dark frame subtraction adds a shutter-closed 'exposure' equal in length to the actual exposure. Then, presumably, there's a little processing time.

Whether this is significant with already very short exposures, I'd doubt, but isn't this the sort of thing you'd want to know for certain, by trying it out for yourself first?

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The lens correction options takes a lot of time I would certainly set those off, noise reduction shouldn't hit the FPS preformance unless you fill the buffer.

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Stefan


K10D, K5
DA* 16-50, DA* 50-135, D-FA 100 Macro, DA 40 Ltd, DA 18-55
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Does the in camera noise reduction effect RAW files?

I thought it was just Jpegs that had any NR on them.

The K-7 does not perform DFS with fast shutter speeds, so that is a non-issue when shooting fps.

High-ISO NR is different. I haven't tested if it affects speed, but you can leave it turned off all the time anyway and do NR afterwards.

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~Pete

It (DFS) is not even activated for very short exposures. But that's not the only NR the camera can do, even with RAW.

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~Pete

I think I'll just turn NR off to be on the safe side.

Wouldn't it just happily fill the buffer while the processor takes his time reducing the noise?

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Stefan


K10D, K5
DA* 16-50, DA* 50-135, D-FA 100 Macro, DA 40 Ltd, DA 18-55
AF-540FGZ

Turn off NR, Distortion and CA correction. That should allow you to shoot at the rated 5 fps until the camera buffer is full.

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I don't know, I haven't tested it. It depends how quickly it does the NR.

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~Pete

How quick it does the NR isn't important right if it first upload the image in the buffer the sensor is ready to make the other photo, so it shouldn't have an impact on shooting speed but I can just as easily be wrong though.

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Stefan


K10D, K5
DA* 16-50, DA* 50-135, D-FA 100 Macro, DA 40 Ltd, DA 18-55
AF-540FGZ

Shouldn't that also apply to lens correction, then? But it doesn't, indicating that the camera doing more than one thing at once slows it down.

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~Pete

at a guess, the buffer has limited bandwidth for data transfer, so if the CPU is using some reading the previous frame for NR/CA/Distortion correction then there is less available for dumping a new frame to the buffer, slowing the whole thing down.

They made a big thing about how the K10D had 800MB/s DDR SDRAM for its buffer. If K10D, which had no CA/D correction to do and a top speed of ~3FPS at 10MPix, needed RAM that fast, K7 surely needs more.

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but it does help

If fast shooting is your prime requirement, I would consider shooting in JPEG, and even reduce the quality slightly to increase speed even more.

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Best regards
Terry

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