On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, David Brooks wrote: > Quite a few of my on site customers try and shoot their kids/friends > with the consumer grade digital P&S's.I keep hearing them say the > shutter takes 1 second(or so)and they have to click the shutter > about a stride from the jump and hope.
I hear this a lot, and it's not as true as most people think. Pick up an AF SLR, turn it on, point it at something and press the button. How long does it take to respond to you and to focus and lock on a subject? Response time is probably around a second or so. You wouldn't try to take action shots without pre-focusing your SLR, so why do people not prefocus digital cameras and then complain about how long it takes them to take a shot that they want instantly? Try this: on pretty much any decent digital camera, aim it at your subject and press halfway down on the shutter button to lock focus, like you would on an SLR. Now press it the rest of the way, and the picture should be instantaneous, again like an SLR. I think that most complaints about the slowness of digital cameras these days comes from people who aren't making allowances for the fact that these cameras have to have time to focus, like SLR's do. chris
