I have three. My dads old Exakta, my old Pentax ME Super, and my newer Minolta.
My Pentax needs some work and those folks are hard to find.
My sons got my dads Canon
Stewart
At 10:36 PM 1/19/2010, you wrote:
Perhaps this is a moment to state that professional photographers
remember - and use! - film cameras, that display no shutter lag at
all. Count me among them.
--- On Tue, 1/19/10, phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] digital camera shutter lag
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 11:19 PM
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> wrote:
> But manual focus, etc., is a matter of using menus to get to the
function, and then using some control to >run the lens motor that
focuses the lens, etc. Not a quick process if you are trying to
take >extemporaneous photographs.
Manual focus, etc., is a matter of using menus if the camera is so
designed. Other cameras that are designed to be more attuned to the
needs of the photographer do not bury such options in menus, but
provide immediate access to such functions with dedicated buttons or
switches. With such cameras, employing those options can be very
quick. Again, we are speaking here not of "pocket cameras," but of
those cameras that bridge between the DSLR and the standard, fit on
the palm of your hand, point-and-shoot.
> While I haven't actually tried it, I presume that manual focus is
like manual zoom -- overshoot, >overshoot, overshoot, or if there
is a speed control on the motor, approach the setting very slowly.
Manual focus can be achieved through, as the word says, manually
altering the focus, bypassing normal motor control over the lens.
> I'm taking pictures at a wedding and I want to photograph the
couple as they leave (the recessional, if >it's called
that). Focus at say, 6 feet, or 10 feet, and snap the picture
"immediately" when the couple >comes into the "zone." And not have
to keep the shutter button half-pressed while waiting for the
shot >to develop. Twisting a lens barrel to match an index marked
"6" is easy. Remembering how to navigate >the menus is not.
As you point out, plodding through menus or trying to remember where
functions are to be found within menus is a pain in the ass and also
quite slow. Small cameras typically have a lot of stuff in menus
because the tiny body of the camera just does not provide enough area
upon which to locate a number of buttons or switches. That is one
reason why DSLRs are large by comparison.
Steve
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