Shutter Lag on the 300d?

[MattCsnoH0MIE]

I dont own the camera and im wondering if anybody that does has this problem, because I guess its a common problem with digital cameras...

[defordphoto]

Not with dSLRs. The shutter lag is pretty much non-existent. You push. The shutter acuates. Just like a 35mm film camera. Yes there is some shutter lag, but most people would not be able to detect it from a 35mm film camera. If you read about it here or anywhere else, that would be a post from a techno-freak that would measure the shutter lag in micro-seconds and then create a graph showing comparisons from 37 different other cameras. We call them measure-bators. We doubt they ever actually shoot pictures. :)

[MattCsnoH0MIE]

Haha alright thanks for the info... Nice to hear its not a problem with dslr's.

[Malaxos1]

I agree, I have found the shutter to be as quick as pushing the button. I took some photos the other day in a class room and was surprised how many I could fire off in a burst and how quick the buffer clears. Very responsive camera...Dean

[Longwatcher]

Just for trivia's sake I believe the shutter lag for the 300D is 128ms, The 10D is at 90ms and the best DSLR on the market for shutter response time is the Canon 1D at 55ms. That would .128secs for the 300D if I have my math correct. Might be .0128 seconds though, its been awhile.

Remember that part of the problem is usually caused by how long does it take to autofocus. One advantage to DSLR is you can go to manual thus shaving that time off the top.

Previous years digital P&S cameras took several seconds to capture an image, most of the current batch are much faster with a few coming in under a second.