I wanted to try out something which needed the continuous drive function on my A100. I set the camera up on a tripod, framed the picture, set the camera on continuous drive mode and fired away using the shutter release cable.

Imagine my surprise when only 3 pictures got taken. I understood that the camera would keep taking pictures until either the memory card got full (4GB) or the camera battery ran out of power.

I've checked through the manual and a couple of other books, but cannot see where I went wrong. The camera was in auto mode and I wasn't using flash.