[thechat] Re: Digicam Shutter Lag Time

[Martin Burns]

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On 23 Jul 2004, at 16:17, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

>>                      For the time between pressing the button and the 
>> shot being taken, much it is focus time, particularly on Compacts. 
>> What several manufacturers offer (Sony for one) is a two-step 
>> shutter: half-depress the button and the camera focuses. Push all the 
>> way down and it takes the shot. If you're pre-focused, the shot is 
>> remarkably quick.
>
> But that's exactly the problem with moving targets, like kids,
> pets, sports -- it's impossible to pre-focus.

I dunno - sports in particular are easy to predict, as Ron's already 
outlined. Canon's USM focusing is very fast anyway.

> Usually I set my day-to-day Canon S110 to "rapid-fire" mode and
> figure at least one shot of the series will be worthwhile :-)

Oh the *only* way to play. The best way to get compliments on your 
photography is to never, ever show anything that's not up to your ideal 
standard.

>>> Taking high-res shots of small items for a project, and storing one
>>> shot takes -- OK, I haven't timed it, but it seems like forever :-)
>> One of the (many) good things about my Canon - it can take several 
>> shots in a burst, buffering them before writing them to the card.
>
> Is that at the highest resolution setting?

High enough for me - my standard setting is (iirc) 1760x1360 JPEG, 
resulting in a ~900k file. This prints nicely to A4 without any 
noticeable artefacts (Epson Stylus Photo 950... yum). There's also a 
neat Photoshop filter that fractally upscales images without 
pixellation - I've had *really* big prints done from this (and smaller) 
resolution originals[1] and they've been fine.

Cheers
Martin
[1] Photo for my parents in law of all their grandchildren. My Sony 
digicam got dropped on the floor (ouch), so had to rely on PhotoCD from 
my bro-in-law's film camera. Nowhere I went to seems to do the old 
Kodak PhotoCD - they all push their own crappy consumer quality - and I 
ended up with about 800x600 at a *really* dodgy quality. Photoshop++

Cheers
Martin
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