"Roger N. Clark wrote:

I have a Canon G1 and shutter lag is awful. It often seems
to take 0.5 to 1 second or longer to acquire focus and shoot.
(Of course this is quite maddening after using the 1D Mark II
with its 40 millisecond lag ;-).

Even if you can find the specs, the formal definition of shutter lag
excludes the AF time.

The P&S cameras use the CCD for AF and have to read out several frames to
focus. So the fastest P&S is going to be a lot slower than the slowest dSLR.

Even worse, the CCD-based AF systems often focus on something contrasty in
the background instead of your subject. This makes the EVF cameras
attractive, since you can see when the AF is messing up.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan