If you will change that from digital camera to point and shoot camera I will agree with you. It is not a specific digital camera problem. It is a problem where the camera has automation (most notably auto focus) that is slow and doesn't provide very good feedback to the user. All AF point & shoots exhibit the same problem of missing the action.
-- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 10:46:43 AM, you wrote: g> This is the bush the bear ran behind while I was focusing my digital camera. g> This is spot where the pretty girl was when I was focusing digital camera. g> This the toy the kid was playing with when I was focusing my digital camera. g> I think I will go out and take some landscape photos now... g> :) g> -- g> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Boris, >> >> You, like many others, fail to realize that it takes time to focus and >> calculate the exposure. Better P&S cameras (Optio S included) have >> focus/exposure lock. All you have to do is press halfway down just >> like an SLR. It will achieve focus and exposure and hold it as long >> as you keep pressure on the shutter button. When the right moment >> arrives, finish pressing and the picture is taken almost immediately. >> No shutter lag. Simply a matter of learning how to master the camera. >> Virtually all P&S cameras have this problem. In fact all AF SLR's >> have this problem too, but they are a little faster. Even on the >> *istD, the general technique is to press halfway down, achieve focus >> lock and then press the rest of the way at the right moment. Try it >> on your own AF SLR and you'll see what I mean. >> >> HTH, >> >> Bruce >> >> >> >> Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 8:20:47 AM, you wrote: >> >> BL> Hi! >> >> BL> No, I did not buy it, why would I? <g> >> >> BL> Co-worker bought it and today I tried it while we had a little party >> BL> in the company. >> >> BL> This thing is way cool of course. It is very hard to operate and >> BL> several times I turned it off instead of taking the picture. But this >> BL> is not the main issue. >> >> BL> This darn thing has eternal shutter release lag. You click and then >> BL> some time in the future it takes the picture... I wonder what was the >> BL> situation with original Optio S... >> >> BL> Of course, the settings were - all maximal quality and all automatic. >> >> BL> <sigh> >> >> BL> Boris >> >> >> >>
