Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Digital question: > > I have a question from students I am unable to answer, so I am > bringing it to the experts. > > A student who owns two digital cameras says when he pushes the shutter > release it takes the camera seconds to respond and he sometimes misses > the shot (I think I read something about this on PF). Does something > need setting on the camera? Is this normal for a digital camera? > One of his cameras is a Kodak, I forgot what the other is. It's a common problem on P&S cameras, even the film ones. Also, he's probably combining the focus time (which is longer on P&S cameras than on AF SLRs) with the "real" shutter delay. With most cameras, you can prefocus by half-pushing the shutter button, and that gets rid of the majority of the delay (often taking a multi-second operation down to a small fraction of a second). The bad news is that even 2/10 of a second of actual shutter delay is disastrous for many kinds of photography. For a near-worst-case, try kittens playing :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
