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http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutte...omparisons.cfm

Thanks to everyone who replied. This table was very interesting - though
the main point it seems to make is just how awful the lag is for all the
cameras listed.

Well, my friend has her new toy now and is very pleased with it: a Ricoh
Caplio R4. This met her requirements well, and testing one 'hands on' it
had much shorter lag times than the others we looked at.

The oft repeated advice to pre-set focus and exposure with a half press,
incidentally, isn't a complete answer (if it was, I wouldn't have asked the
question in the first place...) since there is still quite a lot of lag with
all these cameras even then - the Canon Ixus 65 and Panasonic DMC FX07 being
particularly bad in this regard when I tested them, for example.

Thanks again,


Peter