On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Jeff Miles wrote:
This isn't quite correct. I've been a professional photographer for almost 30 years. I retired from it professionally full time a few years back. Anyway, unless you lock up the mirror on your SLR you've got lag time. Many cheaper SLRs didn't have this capability. But the photographer did something strange, they got to know their camera. And as someone mentioned earlier, they learn to anticipate.
One can learn to anticipate a lag of a few 1/10s of a second. A lag of 2 or 3 seconds is a completely different matter requiring the photographer to become a fortune teller. I borrowed a Nikon for a vacation that had such a lag and found it completely impossible for candid photos.
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