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Anonymous
I'm sick and fucking tired of shutter lag. What camera should I buy?
>> Anonymous
>>277827

A dslr with a fast lens.

/thread.
>> Anonymous
>>277828
Compact.
>> Anonymous
>>277829
Any P&S with a high ISO number and good night shot settings.
>> Anonymous
>>277830
A high-end Ricoh or Panasonic.
>> Project !dashI8UpO.
If you've got shutter lag, either you're doing it wrong or you're using a crap camera, like a cellphone. Half press first to focus then full press.
>> Anonymous
>>277842
When turned on, IS also adds marginal shutter lag.
>> Anonymous
>>277842
I've used tons of compacts, and all have shutter lag, even when pre-focused. If you're not noticing it, then that's a whole other problem.
>> Anonymous
>>277871
Every camera has shutter lag. The fastest in existence, the Canon EOS RT, was a pellicle mirror SLR designed for professional sports photographers, clocked in at .008 seconds if everything was set up in advance. Next are the Leica M cameras, with .018.

I use a small-sensor EVF camera (the Panasonic FZ8) for almost all of what I do, and I've never noticed any. DP Review clocks it in a .07 seconds with everything predone and the IS off.

For digital SLRs, the website Imaging Resource tests them for shutter lag. Here's a few samples, chosen pretty randomly except to spread it across the spectrum from consumer to professional:

40D- .061
D80- .083
5D- .078
D300- .057
D3- .045
1D Mk. III- .054
450D- .089
K10D- .107
E-420- .082
E-3- .076
D60- .093
D90- .067

So with IS off (as it presumably was in all their tests) it's slower than the D300, 1D Mk. III, D90, and 40D but faster than the 5D, 450D, K10D, E-420, E-3, D60, and D80. Don't think anyone's ever bitched about the shutter lag on their 5D.

To compare to some more point and shoot models:

Canon S5IS: .074
Ricoh GR-D: .03 (Holy shit, Heavyweather wasn't kidding)
Ricoh GX-100: .1
Canon G9: .088
Sigma DP-1: .132 (This one isn't surprising.)

TL;DR As long as you're using proper technique, pretty much all not-fail cameras fire their shutter fast. The speed advantage in DSLRs comes only if you're being sloppy or are autofocusing.
>> Anonymous
I wonder what they are doing right in the Ricoh GR-D to get such a fast response?
>> Anonymous
>>278012
Probably not much. Non-pellicle SLRs are inherently slowed a bit by the need to move the mirror, and at .03 it's not that much faster than the D3 .045. Ditch the mirror, give it D3-quality components, and make the shutter as small and light as it must be and it's not that much of a stretch.

Other P&S cameras probably just cheap out on the components. Because after all, from Canon's standpoint if the 450D does .089, it's no problem if the G9 does .088. Especially since the autofocus which 90% of the consumers will use slows it down a crapload, since no one pays attention to these numbers anyway, and since all the competition is mediocre, too. The GR-D has autofocus, but other parameters of the design make it clear it's not intended as an autofocus camera, so Ricoh had to man up, and probably didn't mind since it suited their target market just fine.