> > Thanks everyone that replied to this post so quickly! They were very > positive answers since I had heard that the earlier Canons also suffered > from shutter lag.
Which "earlier Canons" would this be? I've never heard any complaints of shutter lag from Canon DSLR users, and I hang out with a lot of them. All the DSLR designs I know of use the auto-focus and metering logic of comparable film-based bodies (and, in fact, often share more than that).