Thanks everyone that replied to this post so quickly! They were very positive answers since I had heard that the earlier Canons also suffered from shutter lag. Now all that I have for an excuse is lack of full frame sensor and most importantly MONEY! It would really be better for my wallet if this camera had more malfunctions. OH the pain of it all!
David C Miers > It is no worse than the ZX-5n that I own or other modern film SLRs. > > One thing which make shutter lag bad on P&S cameras is that the CCD in > them is always live, updating the LCD. When it is time to take the > picture they need to turn off the CCD for a short amount of time to > let it clear it's registers and go completely black. The picture is > then taken. The *ist D has no live preview CCD so there is not this > source of lag. The AF is also faster than most P&S digital cameras. > > You can usually see why the CCD needs to be cleared on a p&S digital > camera if you point it at a bright light while using live preview. > Often you'll get streaking around the light where the CCD is > overloaded. When you snap the final picture the streaking is gone. > > alex > >
