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In Reply to: Re: Problems Incountered With My New Olympus 80-80 Wide Angle: posted by Impoverished Audiophile on May 04, 2004 at 10:31:10:

The time you press the shutter and the time it takes to process it on the memory card. Digital cameras are like little cumputors, it takes time to process the image. Of course 'autofocus' slows things up also. Manual focus may solve some of the problem. Film cameras are instant but autofocus could slow you down there too.
I probably should have used manual focus, but the granddaughters expressions were so fleeting, I couldn't bother with focusing the camera.

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Yep... - Ding-Dang 06:57:41 05/05/04 (0)
I agree. On consumer and even pro-sumer models, shutter lag is really frustrating. Some cameras are better than others, and are almost instantaneous - but, it's still not like being able to partially depress the shutter button just shy of tripping the shutter, so the slightest twitch of the finger makes the exposure. That's why I use a Leica for certain occassions. No mirror flip, no finder black out and the smoothest, quickest shutter stroke on the planet.
Or, you can just machine-gun your way to success by trying to overwhelm the moment with a rapid, multi-burst exposure technique. The funny thing is, I'm always better at picking the moment than getting lucky that the moment happens during a muli-frame exposure and not between frames.

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