Shutter Lag (1D) or lack thereof

I was just doing some "snapshooting" on the slopes this weekend with my recently acquired 1D, and I realized the super short shuttler lag is purely awesome. I used to shoot with a 40D, have shot with both iterations of the 5D, and the shutter lag on the 1D is phenomenal.

W/O blowing through frames with high fps shooting, I was able to get 2 or 3 controlled quick frames of my friends.

That said, I also had fun using 10fps shooting.

I learned to shoot street on digital with a 5D Classic. I borrowed Geno's Mk III for a few days and I was utterly off my timing due to the non-existent shutter lag. With the 5DC I had a timing down of focus with the thumb * and then shoot... using the 1D3 and my old 5D timing, it never had time to acquire focus because the shutter was so instantaneous.

I never considered lag to be much of a factor on my 30D - maybe because I came to it from some pretty slow P&S cameras! I'm sure my brain to finger and finger to button depression time is much longer than my shutter lag. Now AF speed to lock and FPS are a completely different ball game

Are you talking about the shutter lag or viewfinder blackout time?

tiha wrote in post #7346440
Are you talking about the shutter lag or viewfinder blackout time?

Both are significantly better on the 1-series than the 5's and XXDs. The shutter trips instantaneously and the blackout of the 5D (so annoying) is almost gone. Not nearly as absent as a rangefinder of course but quite reduced.

Yes it's friggin' ridiculous. I shrieked like a little girl the first time I fired that 1D shutter because it went off so much earlier than I expected it to.

perryge wrote in post #7346810
Yes it's friggin' ridiculous. I shrieked like a little girl the first time I fired that 1D shutter because it went off so much earlier than I expected it to.

Premature actuation

im having this same problem
i went to take some pics with my newly acquired 1dmk3, and i was a giddy little kid after the first snap. Its so much nicer than the other cameras ive had (5dmk2 and 40d)