Comments on: Solving Shutter Lag!

By: Preset your Exposure and Focus by Digital Photo Secrets

Preset your Exposure and Focus by Digital Photo Secrets — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:02:41 +0000

[...] When set to auto, some cameras can take a while to adjust for white balance and focus. This is the 2-3 second delay between when you first push the shutter button, and the shot actually being taken – so called Shutter Lag. [...]

By: Peter Evans

Peter Evans — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:26:04 +0000

I agree with Michael in that Fish Eye lens can be VERY expensive but I’m pretty sure that there is some one out there making lens/ converters that can be placed over the front of point and shoot cameras. Go see a good retailer.

For shutter lag, if you have a camera with an exposure lock use it, then release the shutter.
Happy New Year everyone

By: Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:46:28 +0000

A fish eye lens is a specialty lens with a focal lenght of usualy 16mm or less and extreme wide angle picture capability. It is an expensive lens only made for slr or digital slr cameras. The selling price is high, a few thousand dollars for the best ones.
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Manufacturers now list very low shutter lag time but they calculate the lag differently which does not reflect day to day use. Fiji now list digital cameras with 1/100 sec shutter lag time but regular mesurements show none doing better than .30 sec (30/100 sec), 30 times more than advertized.
Read reviews and research before you buy.

By: shutterbug

shutterbug — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:33:34 +0000

I found that increasing the ISO helped when taking shots in dimly lit areas.

By: pk

pk — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:41:14 +0000

like every living creature a fish has an eye ,how a prosumer camera like easyshare Z 7590 with a fixed lens can have one

By: steve lavalle

steve lavalle — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:27:18 +0000

i agree with tacy, what is a fish eye used for. steve

By: tacy

tacy — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:55:04 +0000

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT A FISH EYE IS AND IF THE CAMERA KODAK EASYSHARE Z7590 SHOULD HAVE ONE

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:39:43 +0000

Turn off auto white balance.
It is really slow on many cameras.

Setting the camera to manual usually speeds everything up.

By: Zaid

Zaid — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:02 +0000

If you are going to use infinity focus then make sure that you are in a position where the subject will have the most light on it. Focussing speed is also dependent on the amount light available. Thus in low lighting conditions you may catch the subject but it is too dark or blurred due to the compensated shutter speeds.

By: David Bird

David Bird — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:36:39 +0000

Shutter/focus lag can be quite infuriating. I think your advice on this issue is excellent. I purchased the relatively inexpensive entry level NIKON D50 SLR (this is not an ad)…problem solved.