On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:48:38 -0600 (CST), Chris Brogden wrote: >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 >
Or you get folks like the customer I had the other day, who when trying out a camera is stabbing the shutter button. I could see the camera move 1/4 to 1/2 an inch. I'm sure that his pics are all blurry. I suggested to him that he be more gentle, squeeze the button. We'll see how things improve. jm
