Digital camera

nedd

Hi,

Not sure if this is the place for this thread but i'm going to ask it here anyway.

It is to do with Digital Cameras in general. I have a digital camera and it works just fine. The problem I find is the Lag between when i press the button to when the photo is taken. I find this a problem with lots of Digital cameras.

Does this happen with DSLR's as well? And if it does it there any camera out that that doesnt have the lag?

Cheers
Nedd

rymus

it happens with all digital cameras... dslr's have a significantly shorter lag than normal point & shoot digitals but it's still there. With the majority of dslrs, you wont actually notice the lag, especially if you've got a half decent dslr.

elven

That's the shutter lag -the time it takes to autofocus and record the scene to the camera's memory. You don't get that (noticeably) with digital SLR's.

Here's a handy table telling you just how quick various compacts are: http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm?sort=ShutterLag

And also, if you press the shutter down halfway before taking the picture that will make it focus, so when you press it fully it shouldn't take so long. I think. But that isn't going to help if you're trying to shoot something that's moving about much, sorry...

nedd

Cheers.

also if i was thinking of getting a "half decent dslr", how much should i be thinking of spending?

pete4130

It does happen with DSLR's too, but the lag is nowhere near as slow. If you chekc the specs on DLSR's they will give a start up time (the amount of time when you turn the camera on until it is ready to actually allow an exposure) and it also gives the lag time between the shutter being pressed and the shot being taken. The lag times with mordern DSLR's is so minimal that its almost instantaneous. Oviously the higher end DSLR's will have faster times than the lower end entry level cameras.
The Nikon D200 has a shutter lag of 0.057 seconds using pre focus or continuous focus with the Nikon 18-70 lens (obviously it would be slower if the camera had to aquire focus first). The lens also makes a difference to shutter lag and also if you are using iTTL flash etc....

nilhg

nedd wrote:

Cheers.

also if i was thinking of getting a "half decent dslr", how much should i be thinking of spending?

From €500 up.