burst mode

A landing lasts a couple of seconds and the exact frame worth keeping — the wheels touching, the spoilers coming up, the nose lowering — is decided in fractions of one. A burst is how you get it. The costs are a full buffer at the wrong moment and a great many near-identical frames to sort.

Nearby in Photography

• bokeh — The visual quality of the out-of-focus parts of an image, as distinct from how much of it is out of focus.
• bracketing — Shooting the same frame at several exposures so at least one is right, or so they can be combined.
• chromatic aberration — Coloured fringing caused by a lens focusing different wavelengths at slightly different points.
• clipping — Loss of detail where tones exceed what the sensor or file can record, leaving pure white or pure black.