Burst mode

[Bart150]

I’m interested in burst mode as a means of getting sharp pictures in poor lighting conditions.

I understand the term ‘burst mode’ to mean that I can hold the button down and get, say, five shots of the same picture in an art gallery. Afterwards I can pick out the sharpest and delete the rest.

If that is ‘normal’ burst mode then the Nikon I have at the moment has a much better form of burst mode (for my purposes). It automatically decides which one is the sharpest out of the, say, five shots I have taken, and stores only that one. So I am spared the task of sorting through all the shots to pick the sharpest. I find this very very useful. It saves a great amount of tedious work.

Nikon’s marketing brochures give the impression that this feature is unique to their cameras. I haven’t noticed anything like it mentioned for other cameras.
But why not? It’s such a useful feature that I’d have thought most cameras would have it.
So I’m puzzled about this. Can anyone help me?

[Alan Ball]

You aren't really referring to "normal" burst mode, which your model probably also has, but Nikon's "Best Shot Sequence" feature. The difference between these two modes is that the burst (aka continuous) mode stores all the shots while the BSS mode stores only the one the camera thinks is the sharpest. My Nikon Coolpix 995 also has such a feature but I have not had particularly good luck with it. Instead, I just use the continuous mode and cull the results manually.