Burst shutter feature useful or not on a digital camera

When you buy a camera these days for have some extra features such a
burst shutter option that causes the camera to take 15 shots per
second (depending on the model of camera). There are two uses I can
think of such as shooting someone crossing the finished line or over
coming the shutter lag problem.
Has anyone found other uses for the burst shutter option?

On the Fijufilm FinePix S8000 camera there are options for 15 shots
per second, 15 shots per 2 seconds, 3 shots per 3 seconds called a Top
3 and continously shooting at 2 shots per second by holding down the
shutter button until either you release the button or the memory card
is full. I can't find a use for the Top 3 as I could use the continous
shooting mode. The only disadvantage of the 15 shots per second is
that you are limited to 2 Meg photos.
Does anyone find these features useful and what occasions would you
use it?
Another feature called bracketing I find useful but you need to decide
on plus or minius 1/3, 2/3 or 1 EV. It would be nice if the camera was
able to take a wider range of exposures such as taking 5 photos at
different exposures. I've found that the 2/3 option seems a better
choice and the last photo it takes out of 3 seems to be correctly
exposed.

Regards Brian

 

Thanks Mike.
The only disadvantage I've found is the camera needs to store the 15
or so photos before you can take another shot so there is a time
delay. Maybe some time in the future cameras might have a dual burst
mode so you can take a burst of 15 photos and then before they are
saved you can take another burst of 15 photos, then all 30 photos are
saved.


Regards Brian

 

This is a common feature/drawback of Fuji's bridge cameras, and it was one
of the giggest driving motivations that made me upgrade my S6500 to a DSLR.
DSLR's write the images to the memory card as they're being captured, like
they're using a sort of buffer memory arrangement, whereas the bridge
cameras tend to wait until you've captured the burst, before starting to
devote all its processing power to writing the images, rendering the camera
unuseable until the process is complete.