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Need a low shutter lag point and shoot digital
Hi. I need some help. I want to get a small
point and shoot digital camera, but I am concerned about the shutter lag. Please do not recommend a DSLR, as I have a Canon 1D Mark II and 10D cameras and plenty of lenses to go with them. I'm looking for something small, some specs that are important to me: 5 megapixels or larger, auto, manual, aperture priority modes, 3x optical zoom minimum, with autofocus, built in flash, compact flash I (and type II would be nice) cards, under about $500, reasonably low shutter lag for this type of camera. Nice but not necessary: raw mode output. The question is, what is a reasonably low shutter lag on such cameras these days? I can't seem to find many specs. Lag only seems to be mentioned rarely in reviews, and the manufacturers do not seem to give it. Does someone know of a site (especially a table that compares the lag times, measured in a uniform way) with lag times? I want lag time from shutter press, autofocus, exposure calculation to release of the shutter, and I do not consider lag time with manual focus to be relevant for my purposes. 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 ;-). One camera that I am looking at is the Canon A95, but I can not find shutter lag info. It also only uses compact flash type I. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks in advance, Roger photography, digital info at: http://www.clarkvision.com |
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