I agree... if you are using a digital camera and are not familiar with this... become familiar with it. You'll be pleased to know this isn't a hinderence, but an advantage. Digital photography IMHO is awesome!! My sunset, lightning and various other photos are proof of that. :)
have fun, David McD On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:21:02 -0500, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every "automatic" camera does this to some extent. They have to > auto-focus, and handle metering to determine aperture, exposure, and for > most digitals, the iso speed. If you know what you want, you can > manually set some of these things if your camera can handle it, but I > trust the camera to auto-focus more than me looking at a little tiny LCD > screen, so I usually let it do its job. Auto-focus is by far the > longest of these tasks though. The right thing to do is press the > button half-way down until the camera says it's ready. Then press it > the rest of the way and the picture should take almost immediately. > > Joel > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > Hi Christopher, > > > > I have a Kodak dx4530 camera, and it's wonderful except for one GLARING > > flaw. > > The picture doesn't flash until maybe a half second after you push the > > button. Invariably that causes blurring. > > > > You can sorta get around it by pressing the button half way for a second or > > so > > til an LED goes on, and then press the button all the way, and most of the > > time it will go off immediately. But not always. Anyway, because of this one > > "feature", taking pictures is always stressful. > > > > Does your dx7440 do this also? How many others of you have cameras that do > > not > > immediately shoot when you press the button? I've heard it's pretty common. > > What have you all done to work around this? > > > > SteveT > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
