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Can someone explain the velocities of the camera for me?
The shutter speed, the implementation rate, recycle rate, continuous shooting speed? I know a little about each one, but not enough! My current digital camera is 5 years old. I'm ready to buy a new one because I feel like it takes a billion years to get a picture because it takes forever to focus …. or something. Especially if you take a picture with flash, I have wait a minute before I can take the next picture (recycle speed??) I've been looking around, and I think the Nikon Coolpix s640 has an extremely quick start-up speed of 0.7 seconds, but does that mean that images taken quickly and early? Thanks soooo much:)
Check out to this table: http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm?sort=ShutterLag is a little out of date, but one can expect that the s640 is at least as good as S620 in the top of the table. If the speed is in all aspects of interest to you, digital SLR have virtually no shutter lag whatsoever. Implementation is almost instantaneous. With ANY digital SLR, the thing will be ready to shoot when it is received to the eye. The photo is taken at the instant you press the shutter, if it is in focus. Autofocus is very fast decent light for any digital SLR camera and under 1 second to dim light for the majority. Yes, they cost more money and are larger, but if you're missing shots because of all these "speed" factors may be interested. Here a response from historical accuracy of mines that may help: If you pre-focus by pressing the shutter button halfway down while pursuing the subject – or when think your purpose is when you want to take the picture – which will help considerably. You can set your camera to the "SPORT" or "Landscape" and this will reduce the lag. If you do not use the flash, will help. If you turn off "face detection", which will help. If you turn off the LCD monitor and use the display only, will help. If you use the continuous shooting mode of a burst of four or five shots, there will be no pre-focus in the midst of the shooting. For most cameras point and shoot, this will give-a-2, 1.5 frames per second, but you can not use the flash. Some point and shoot cameras are better than others. I have a Canon Powershot SD900 that seems quite fast for me. If you are http://www.dpreview.com and read the reviews (once they are available for cameras to be given) you can go to the page called "Performance" to see exactly what the shutter lag is tested as well as several other performance indicators. Here a link that shows a chart of various cameras and shutter lag, and the time it takes to shoot five frames. You will not see any SLR camera Digital list, because they have no lag. If you click on the column heading, such as "One Shot", the table is sorted according to the measurement. http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm
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