wrote:

That's not correct, unless you're writing about the absolute bottom of
the range digicam.
All digital cameras with an EVF and almost all with a LCD have a
shutter, it is just open while giving the live preview (the image
displayed on the EVF or LCD) and closes briefly to flush the sensor
before taking the exposure for a still image.
That is what gives the EVF/LCD type digicam a longer shutter lag, even
if they are set to manual focus and exposure modes.

That make sense I guess. So is that a mechanical shutter, or is the CCD
flushed electronically.

That definitely explains the delay that the SLR don't seem to get.