C-8080 can I ake it faster to fire.

I recently bought an Olympus C-8080 and like it a lot. I am taking
portraits with it in my studio. My previous camera was the C-3000. The
C-8080 seems to take even longer to fire than the C-3000 even though I
am pre-setting the white balance to daylilght so it doesn't have to
white balance the scene. Lately I have tried using a smaller aperture
and setting the focus to manual since subject to camera distance stays
pretty stable in the studio. I would think at this point that the
camera would fire almost instantly. Yet there is still a delay. Does
anyone know of a way to speed this up? I miss some shots especially
with kids because of the delay.

Also, I am getting ready to buy a CF card. Does anyone have any
recommendations regarding brand and speed, e.g. is 40X or 80x good or
is there a real advantage to gong to 133X.

Thanks in advance.

gp photo wrote:
> I recently bought an Olympus C-8080 and like it a lot. I am taking
> portraits with it in my studio. My previous camera was the C-3000. The
> C-8080 seems to take even longer to fire than the C-3000 even though I
> am pre-setting the white balance to daylilght so it doesn't have to
> white balance the scene. Lately I have tried using a smaller aperture
> and setting the focus to manual since subject to camera distance stays
> pretty stable in the studio. I would think at this point that the
> camera would fire almost instantly. Yet there is still a delay. Does
> anyone know of a way to speed this up? I miss some shots especially
> with kids because of the delay.
>
> Also, I am getting ready to buy a CF card. Does anyone have any
> recommendations regarding brand and speed, e.g. is 40X or 80x good or
> is there a real advantage to gong to 133X.
>
> Thanks in advance.

The C8080 was never meant to be a rapid-fire camera. It's forte are
excellent shots of more or less static scenes. Having said that, you
could use the 1.5fps shooting mode and fire off a few frames instead of
just one, if your strobes can accommodate it.