Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David Young offered: > I think the reason you've never worried about "shutter lag" is that you > have been blessed with Leica's, both M's and R's. These are about the > fastest (ie: lowest shutter lag) cameras of their types.<<< Hello David, I don't doubt that for a moment, however I don't re-call it ever being something of concern simply because I never knew it existed until I heard people with digi cams mention something about lag between tripping the shutter and the picture being taken. Which I took to mean a failing with digital cameras. End of thought about lag. UNTIL! Oops, it happens with a Leica? Well gee whiz eh, it never happened to me. Or I believed so, maybe! However, what I still can't understand is, if it's such a big topic, OK certainly with el-cheapo digi cams and some P&shoots, that it's never been a high ticket item of using cameras until I start reading it on the LUG from concerned folks. I'm not trying to be a nerd here, I just can't get overly excited over something that in 50 plus years I'd never known about and yet still been a successful sports photographer. I suppose in one's wildest imagination I may have missed the "ultimate peak" action of a Carl Lewis or Ben Johnson, or who knows. But what I did capture were still award winning photographs without any knowledge of "lag time." Obviously not all of them, but a fair number. Now if I should ever go digital, not likely, I am now fully aware of this lag factor folks have explained. And to those who've coped with me during the past 24 hours trying to get lag through my head as a real thing to understand, I thank you for your patience. And once again the "old dog" has learned a new trick or two. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html