One of the real problems with today's point and shoot cameras is shutter lag -- the time delay between "pushing the button" and "taking the picture". Even if you press half-way and hold, there is still significant shutter delay. This is a real problem if you are trying to take ad hoc (un-posed, spontaneous) pictures. The subject moves during the delay time, and what-you-get is very much _not_ what-you-see. In days of yore (say the 1950's and the Argus C3), shutter delay was very small, because the aperture, speed and focus had been pre-set and were not automatically generated by a sensor. Supposedly (I don't have one to test), the shutter lag is very much less with DSLR cameras than point-and-shoot cameras. If you can get the timing correct, spontaneous pictures are much better than posed pictures.
And manual settings, while possible on point-and-shoot digital cameras, are done with menus and buttons, and are slow and tedious to perform, unlike just twisting a knob or the lens barrel to match an index mark, which is quickly and precisely done. Fred Holmes At 09:29 AM 1/18/2010, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: >I get a kick out of the folks who run around with DSLR's. It is a status >symbol or like bling to them, it does not make their picture taking any better. > >Stewart ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
