All compact digital cameras now include a movie mode and, in many cases, the quality is now good enough to rival conventional digital cameras. Movie modes are ideal for shooting short video ’snapshots’ for YouTube or sharing online, but you [...]
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Normally, ‘frame rate’ describes the numbers of frames per second in movie footable. Sometimes, though, it’s also used to describe the continuous shooting speed of a stills camera. In practice, people use ‘frame rate’ and ‘fps’ interchangeably.
How fast a camera can shoot continuously, in ‘frames per second’. A basic digital SLR might be able to shoot at 3 frames per second (fps) while a professional model might manage 8fps or even 10fps.

In continuous shooting mode, the camera keeps taking pictures all the time the shutter release is held down. The maximum speed it can do this is quoted as frames per second (fps). The speed is limited either by the shutter mechanism [...]
Camera memory used for storing photos temporarily. The buffer is used to line up photos for processing by the camera and while the images are being saved to the memory card. The buffer allows you to keep shooting while the [...]