Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
But it still is the point how many Point and Click photographers even
know or care about those items?
Stewart
At 12:52 PM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
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
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