On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:05:10 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:

dennis@home wrote:
wrote in message
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http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutte...omparisons.cfm

They have an interesting definition of shutter lag.
"The Shutter Lag Comparison Table shows the amount of time it takes each
camera to record one shot and five shots"

It is supposed to be the time taken from pressing the release until the
shutter operates and has /nothing/ to do with how long it takes to record
the image.

The table appears to be meaningless as far as shutter lag goes.


Anyway most cameras can operate faster if you turn off automatic white
balance.
It certainly slows mine down.
The same is true of auto exposure but its more difficult to live without.


Continuous auto-focus can also slow things quite a bit.

Shouldn't. Continuous autofocus means that the image is already focused
when the release is pressed--should be almost as quick as prefocus.

I define
'shutter lag' as the time between full depression of the shutter button,
and recording of the image. Unfortunately, the chart referenced seems
to also consider flash recharge, and write to card, times. Not useful
for answering the OP's question.

http://www.dpreview.com has reviews on a large number of digital cameras
and they measure the lag under several different conditions. However their
site doesn't make it easy to put together a comparison on that basis, you
have to read each review and put together a list then sort it yourself.

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